Zack Pruitt is a river guide long on skill but
short on nerve. So he runs from everything: dropped out of college, quit his
job, abandoned his girlfriend and young son to guide rivers in the Sierra Nevada mountains. But now, on a high-water river
trip with Gallows--a brutal rapid that's always terrorized him--waiting
downstream, running is not an option. Complicating the trip is a beautiful but
predatory woman named Victoria and her paranoid father, Dane. An illicit
encounter between Victoria and Zack leads to trouble. As the flotilla careens
down the remote canyon toward Gallows, events spin out of control and Zack
finds his life--and the lives of everyone on the trip--at stake. Trapped in a
remote canyon with the river flooding and Dane after him, Zack must finally
stop running and face his demons.