In a sun-baked southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, a four-year-old girl is abandoned by her mother, setting in motion a family drama that will ripple through years and lives to come. In Blaize Speaks, Book Two of The Speaks Saga, Timewall’s fiery mother, must navigate to young adulthood in rural Appalachia as a ward of the foster care system, struggling every step of the way to preserve her identity and independence while clinging to that certain spark of innocence, the only thing that will prevent her from becoming what she most fears. At once poignant and tragic, Blaize’s journey forces her to make irreconcilable choices, revealing along the way the history of the people and place that Timewall Speaks will eventually be born to.