Staid city man Blake meets the perfect country girl, Erin, who can finally liven his routine life. A spontaneous country romance ensues. But Blake soon gets entangled in a drug pandemic sedating the countryside. The young only wish to sleep now, despite society's use of robots to rouse them. Erin's whole generation has experienced everything: world travel, drugs, pain, all joys known, and all performances ever recorded. Only one thrill remains for her: death.

But can Blake offer her something better? How does a man compete with a wonder drug that takes all dullness way? Fortunately for Erin, Blake befriends a remarkable horse who shares his desire to keep striving. Together, Blake and the horse must rescue Erin's body and mind via a display of impossible feats.

"The Apples on the Ground" will rattle you awake with a new kind of sci-fi romance. Get it now.