THE MEATH RANCH outside Red Feather in the Colorado mountains seems cursed. Two of Lady Meath's husbands die in bizarre, grizzly accidents. The third suddenly disappears. Now she is dead, and the same terrible luck besets her heir, Carson Doyle. First, a nameless, mummified body is unearthed. Then, Doyle's scheme to turn the ranch into a resort collapses when he ignores dire warnings not to reopen the ranch's old goldmine. Finally, death claims another victim. JACKIE REED, a young, divorced mother, struggles to start a real estate career. Listing the Meath Ranch is her big break. . . until she is pulled into the gruesome and terrifying disasters at the ranch. Her life is threatened. Her daughter is missing. And she is caught between her strong feelings for an old flame and the new deputy sheriff. GEORGE FERRELL owns the Red Feather General Store and is plagued by his own demons. He is a longtime father figure for Jackie who turns to him for support, sensible advice, and the solution to the baffling murders.