A family, traveling across America’s wide open spaces, finds tragedy in rural New Mexico. A drifter with a checkered past intercepts them under the brutal summer sun. Their colliding paths set in motion a series of horrific events that sweep across the Southwest. A young woman, tending to her books in Western Louisiana, wishes for adventure. She receives it when a fugitive enters her life under the most unusual circumstances. It takes all her strength to face the trials ahead. From the desert, into the swamplands, and onward to the mountains, a path of blood will be carved through the heart of rural America in APEX DESCENT.