Determined to win a grueling desert 4-wheel drive rally to save her family’s motor sports shop, a driven off-road racer finds herself saddled with a beginner partner who won’t be much help in the battle against deadly conditions, sabotage, and her shady former racing partner.

SYNOPSIS:

Desert Belles is inspired by the women of the Rebelle Rally, an eight-day off-road competition held every October that covers over 1500 miles in the Nevada and California deserts. Women compete in teams of two, a driver and a navigator, and test their navigation skills using only a compass and paper map.

Since she was a young girl, Geri has been part of her father’s competitive off-road world. Now in her 60s she has many off-roading titles: King of the Hammers, Baja 1000 and the Desert Belle Rally.

After training her daughter and qualifying again for the women-only Desert Belle off-road event the daughter is recruited away by Jeep. Geri then discovers her father was way behind on his bills and decides to compete on her own in the Desert Belle to win the money needed to save the business. She finagles her way into the last spot in the event but must mend fences with the Jeep executive she clashed with and accept the partner provided by the rally’s director, a sports reporter with zero outdoor experience and no experience navigating in the desert.

Geri’s partnership with the reporter gets off to a literal rocky start when they take the hair-raising route the reporter mistakenly chooses. Over the eight-day rally across the desert they bicker, gain grudging respect and then become true partners as they survive a deadly flash flood, encounter unlikely vehicle malfunctions, realize they are up against cheaters and then must save those cheaters and themselves after a deadly crash during a sandstorm.

DESERT BELLES