Speakers of the Earth Book One: The Fireweed Entrance: 1

Surviving on the hard-scrabble streets of Seattle in 2000 likeable and troubled Ray Holdman carries a secret--one that destroyed his father and has made Ray into a lifelong vagabond: he can communicate with trees.After a chance meeting sets Ray on the road to nearby Mt. Tahoma also known as Mt. Rainier he enters the parks vast wilderness and soon stumbles on an unlikely cast of characters who seem to have the power to commune with--even work with--the forces of nature. But Rays new friendships and growing understanding of his own remarkable gifts are pushed to the limit when he encounters a malevolent spirit intent on destroying the earth as we know it and all those Ray is quickly coming to hold dear. Equal parts ecological fiction and contemporary mythology Speakers of the Earth is a riveting hair-raising adventure from a storyteller with wisdom to share and an impassioned ode to the beauty and more-than-human intelligence of the natural world.