The Mountain Spruce (Speakers of the Earth Volume 2)

<p style=color: rgb(70 68 68); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 255 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; white-space: pre-wrap;><em>A Mountain Spruce</em>: book two in the electrifying new series <em>Speakers of the Earth</em></p><p style=color: rgb(70 68 68); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 255 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; white-space: pre-wrap;>The council of the Speakers has just ended and Ray Holdman must now confront gifts and capabilities that are coming to him quickly and inexplicably in ways both frightening and dangerous. No longer certain who-or even what-he is or is becoming Ray quickly learns that without all the help his remarkable new friends have to offer nothing but catastrophe will follow.</p><p style=color: rgb(70 68 68); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 255 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; white-space: pre-wrap;>The backcountry of Tahoma-also called Mount Rainier-teems with elemental energy that drives and vivifies the Earth. Used properly by those gifted with its secrets this energy is a boundless source of healing replenishment and growth. Used wrongly or ignorantly it becomes an agent of fearful destruction. Now Ray must stretch his body heart and mind beyond anything he has ever known or imagined in order to wield properly the power he has been given and that he was born with. Ray's next choices and how he carries them out will decide whether his newfound friends the land and all who live in it will live or die.  </p><p style=color: rgb(70 68 68); font-family: adobe-garamond-pro; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255 255 255); text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; white-space: pre-wrap;>Equal parts ecological fiction and contemporary mythology <em>Speakers of the Earth</em> is a riveting hair-raising adventure from a storyteller with deep human wisdom to share and an impassioned ode to the beauty and more-than-human intelligence of the natural world and the humans who strive to live in community with it.</p>