An ambitious young coal company engineer reluctantly returns to his Appalachian roots in search of a close friend who has inexplicably disappeared. Haunted by his past and dogged by a brutally chilling conspiracy, he is quickly drawn into a violent web of deceit and revenge where he must trust his life to a mysteriously alluring young mountain woman who may be his worst enemy -- or his only hope for survival. Back Country is a terrifying account of unbridled greed where the extant tranquility of the western Appalachian Mountains is ruthlessly consumed by deadly prejudices and smoldering passions. Darkness has come to the mountains. Dawn is far over the horizon.