Length7h 57m
About this audiobook
Following The Heartless Ranch Is Haunted, this is the second novel in the This Is Dismal series. This is the one you have been waiting for. With a driving soft thriller plot and elegantly deliberate sci fi elements, this is also a great entry point for your first Dismal read. Welcome to the Dismal world, welcome home.
Go back to Dismal when Ashley comes to live with her sister Emmy and her friend Phoebe on their family's haunted ranch in Nebraska. Go back to 1951 and find out what really happened over there anyway.
From Dallas to New Mexico to the Sandhills of Nebraska and across two timelines explore the lightly spooky connection between generations in this western family saga. Featuring ghost cowboys and homemade nuclear batteries, hallucinated horses and the Boot Hill cemetery, the modern ranching family called the Hammonds and their dignified patriarch Mr. James Hammond- fans of authentic western culture are sure to find their new favorite stories.
From the tender but exuberantly impulsive Emmy to the fast driving and semi-clairvoyant Phoebe, Y2K women and fans of women's friendship stories are sure to find their new favorite duo. And as the story layers deepen in This Is Dismal, we discover the emerging friendship between rivals Ivory and Doris, who were neighbors in 1951, when Ivory becomes terminally ill and faces dying alone.
We find out who Don the young cowboy ghost was when he was alive. We meet the honest soul Joe, who would give up his own life to stop the deaths in his family. Through strange cattle drives and mysterious natural phenomenon to eminent domain testing ranges and the intuitive Agent X's clash with the wild cat like desert cowboy Otto, this is a book for the reader that wants to go somewhere they have never gone before.
From Nebraska novelist and quilt fabric designer Bunny Hammond, this novel will take you inside the imagination of the modern western world. Dismal is a bold expressive place, as intelligent and refined as it is untamed. Our ancestors are closer to us than we realize and nothing is ever really gone. Welcome home.
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Historical Fiction
Length7 hrs 57 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 14, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2624. Matt’s Orchids
2I. PART ONE
2725. Insurance Reports
31. Boot Hill
2826. Too Easy
42. David’s Plans
2927. Angel Made Of Wire
53. A Good Horse Named Copper
3028. Emmy And Phoebe
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64. My Name Was Clyde
3129. Welcome Home
75. David In Dallas
3230. Beth And Trains
86. Help From God
3331. Beth And Lightning
97. A Storm And An Explosion
3432. Don At The Fuel Station
108. There Should Be Another Rock Here Somewhere
3533. Still Here
119. Cell 10
36II. PART TWO
1210. My Sister’s Story
3734. Don Donahue
1311. The Funeral
3835. Ivory’s World
1412. The Gun Range
3936. Beneath A Cottonwood Tree
1513. The Phone Call
4037. The New Church
1614. Emmy In Nebraska
4138. Joe Hart
1715. Phoebe Paints
4239. The Last Happy Night
1816. What You Are Looking For
43III. PART THREE
1917. Someone Knows The Answers
4440. Nowhere To Run
2018. A Bigger Loveseat
4541. Into The Dark
2119. Someone Somewhere
4642. A Girl Alone In The Wind
2220. Evolve Without Selling Out
4743. Mittens The Kitten
2321. Today’s Cup
4844. Joe Is Going To New Mexico
2422. A Difficult Time
4945. An Uncanny End
2523. David’s Money
5046. Virgil Hart
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