About the Book

River Dudek was born with a gift to hear the thoughts of trees. After befriending a giant oak tree named Old Man, he learns that civilization is on the fringes of environmental and psychological self-destruction. The messages he receives from Old Man take him on a life-long journey of challenging and awakening adventures of truth and discovery.

After a series of fortuitous meetings with some enigmatic characters, including a ventriloquist psychiatrist, an ex-panther kindergarten teacher, a pre-teen voodoo practitioner, and a flower-loving marine officer, he sets out on a mission to find Dark Wood, a mysterious tree that harbors the long lost secrets of our ancestors recorded in a vast biological network the trees call The Ring.

As he begins to solve the clues leading up to the location of Dark Wood, he struggles with his sanity and uncovers the identity of the last tree whisperer—something that will change his life forever, and quite possibly the fate of the entire world.