Joanna Carroll

The draw to get the group of investors and contractors to the broken-down ghost town was the promise that they'd be in on: refurbishing it to its glory days, making it into a dude ranch, fashioning it as an upscale Western spa, creating a bordello hideway..a Chicken Ranch ..but surely it couldn't be all those things! Mr. Muerto knew just what bait to use for each individual's hook. It wasn't until all were assembled and stranded in the middle of the Nevada desert that they found out the real reason they'd all been brought together...but then it was too late.
Investigative journalist, Meg Witt, and her architect husband, Mark's, roles were to be the discoverers. But they arrived 10 days early and instead became part of the macabre production as one by one they were picked off by an avenging sister.