Imprisoned from the Cartel, Dale Hardy must fight to flee his captors and discover a way home before everything and everyone he keeps dear is lost forever.

For the Cartel, it turns out subduing the tiny town of Encendido was only the beginning. Ruthless crime employer Fernando Ortega has his sights established on reclaiming great swaths from the American South-West, an empire he intends to rule with an iron fist.

But which key hiding in the desert, a key that could spell the difference between tyranny and freedom. As the country teeters within the brink, the stakes couldn’t become higher.