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Overview: Kirk Ward Robinson, a four-time Appalachian Trail thru-hiker, was born and raised in south Texas and has since lived in every continental American time zone. He is an inveterate hiker and cyclist, which is how he prefers to travel and explore the world. His wide-ranging career has included roles as a chief operating officer, bookstore manager, stagehand, bicycle mechanic, and executive director of an educational non-profit organization in cooperation with the National Park Service. Robinson has been twice named to Kirkus Reviews’ Best Books, in 2012 for Life in Continuum, and in 2015 for The Appalachian. He earned five stars from Foreword Clarion Reviews for his novel The Latter Half of Inglorious Years.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
1. Timewall Speaks
In a sun baked southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, the industrious past of railroads and mills has followed an all-too-familiar descent into poverty and neglect.
In Book One of The Speaks Saga, young ex-con Timewall Speaks dreams of nothing more than to be left alone to make his own choices. Born and raised in drug-addled poverty by his fiery mother Blaize, caught up in local corruption, confined by a self-perpetuating system of incarceration, and plagued by his younger sister’s murder, Timewall reluctantly becomes the focus of a movement toward freedom and justice, narrowing his choices to just two: assume the dangerous responsibility of leadership, or take the safer path and go it alone.
His decision will call upon talents repressed by circumstances, revealing the potential of those who have been overlooked by prosperity.
2. Blaize Speaks
In a sun baked southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, where the genteel traditions of the past are giving way to violence and greed, a four-year-old girl is abandoned by her mother, setting in motion a drama that will ripple through years and lives to come.
In Book Two of The Speaks Saga, Blaize Speaks, Timewall’s fiery mother must navigate toward young adulthood in rural Appalachia as a ward of the foster care system, struggling against abuse and cruelty to preserve her identity and independence while desperately clinging to a last 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 the place that her son Timewall will eventually be born to.
3. Ridley Speaks
In a sun baked southern town near the famous Appalachian Trail, poverty and drug abuse have taken hold, and an eighteen-year-old girl sets out on a single-minded mission to save her future.
In Book Three of The Speaks Saga, Blaize’s eldest daughter, Ridley, has finally come of age and can now escape her bleak life, desperate to leave bitter memories behind but she is haunted by them, recounting the trials and struggles of the Speaks family during its darkest period. When she is stranded in Nashville, Ridley must use her wits and her cunning to foil human traffickers who want to groom and exploit her.
With the grit and determination born of her upbringing in Appalachia, Ridley battles her way through Music City’s most hallowed streets in a deadly pursuit of vengeance, never losing sight of her ultimate goal, while drawing courage from the very person she’d come to hate.
In Ridley Speaks, readers will discover what happened to Blaize and Jocela at the end of Blaize Speaks, see Timewall as a young boy, and learn the backstories of Tommy, Robbie, Priscilla, and Lainey.
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