When Santa Fe historian Kate Isaacs disappears while staying and doing research at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, Isaacs\' wife hires private investigator Fernando Lopez to find the missing woman.
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Solving the murders takes them into a dangerous underworld of transients, paranormals and psychopaths.
Their investigation leads them to a derelict A-frame in the mountains where they find Isaacs\' body and the bodies of two other people.
Lopez teams up with Taos County Sheriff Hank Mathews after kidnappers contact Isaacs\' wife and demand a ransom for her return.
Isaacs is a suspect in the murder until it becomes clear that she has been kidnapped.
The Mystery deepens when a former lover of Isaacs turns up dead at a party Isaacs attended the night she disappeared.
They tell Lopez the sprawling hundred-year-old house is haunted by the ghosts of the famous people who stayed there, including Georgia O\'Keeffe, Willa Cather, and Dennis Hopper, as well as Mabel and her Native American husband Tony.
Employees and a local paranormal organization blame ghosts.
At the Luhan House, now a bed and breakfast inn, Lopez learns that Isaacs walked out of her room during the night wearing only a nightgown and slippers.
When Santa Fe historian Kate Isaacs disappears while staying and doing research at the historic Mabel Dodge Luhan House in Taos, Isaacs\' wife hires private investigator Fernando Lopez to find the missing woman
