<p>Surviving on the hard-scrabble streets of Seattle&nbsp;in 2000, likeable and troubled Ray Holdman carries a secret&mdash;one that destroyed his father and has made Ray into a lifelong vagabond: he can communicate with trees.</p><p>After a chance meeting sets Ray on the road to nearby Mt. Tahoma, also known as Mt. Rainier, he enters the park&rsquo;s vast wilderness and soon stumbles on an unlikely cast of characters who seem to have the power to commune with&mdash;even work with&mdash;the forces of nature. But Ray&rsquo;s 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.<br />
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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.</p>