Lost and Lassoed

Theodora “Teddy” Andersen lives in Meadowlark, Wyoming, with her father, Hank, who works at Rebel Blue Ranch, owned by her best friend Emmeline “Emmy” Ryder’s family. Teddy and Emmy have been best friends since childhood, and Teddy is helping Emmy and her fiancé, Luke Brooks, or “Brooks,” clean out the Devil’s Boot, a historic bar that he recently inherited and hopes to reopen. Emmy has two brothers, August (“Gus”) and Wes. Teddy gets along with Wes and is friends with his girlfriend, Ada. However, she and Gus are enemies, despite the fact that she’s Emmy’s maid of honor and Gus is the best man. When Gus arrives to help with the cleanup, she teases him about his “pornstache” and his too-tight T-shirt, joking that it must belong to his six-year-old daughter, Riley. Gus flips her off and goes to work in the basement, a place Teddy avoids because she’s convinced it’s haunted. Emmy sends Teddy to the basement closet with a box of old newspaper articles about the bar that they intend to frame and hang on the wall. Teddy clambers through the dark, creepy basement into the closet and accidentally locks herself inside with Gus.