Lillia Pameroy can't wait to see her friend Tod performing in the Wild West Shootout Show in Deadwood. But he doesn't appear...except on a Missing Perons poster! Chasing his dream of finding gold in the Black Hills, Tod didn't come home last night. His is lost somewhere in the dark mysterious (mysterious dark?) hills. Search parties are quickly formed to find him. His family is frantic. Lillia knows these South Dakota hills are haunted. She has already seen the ghosts of miners and cave explorers. She has watched spirits of wild mustangs run in the valley below. Fun imaginings for a paranormal. But now, in a bitter snow storm, outside an abandoned gold miner's cabin...the fun is over. High on Whistler Ridge, between the blowing snowflakes, ghostly footprints form in front of her. Why? Who, or what, is making them? Should she follow them...let them lead her away from the other searcher...get her alone? And the most important question, will this imagining help find Tod?