It’s high summer in the Mojave Desert, and Kristine Rush and her fiancÔe, Daniel, are en route from Las Vegas to Lake Arrowhead, California, for the July Fourth holiday weekend. But when Daniel is abducted from a desolate rest stop, Kristine is forced to choose: return home unharmed, but never to see her fiancÔe again, or plunge forward into the searing desert to find him…where a killer lies in wait.