Echoes Down a Dark Well

Publisher Marketing: Have you ever wondered if you've lived before? Imagine then if you could remember every moment of every life you have lived for the past two thousand years! That is the continuing fate and curse of a soldier of fortune named Cody. Not only is he cursed to recall each life, but he knows that each succeeding one will end the same - in violence, tragedy and death. He has only one slim ray of hope that keeps him clinging to sanity - The Girl. She, like him, is on a never ending cycle of rebirth. The only difference is that she has the power to heal his tortured soul and give him peace. But first he must find her. And that's not easy because just like him in each incarnation she is born into a different family of a different race or culture, and the only way that Cody can recognize her is by her eyes. The eyes are the windows to the soul and her ageless soul always shines through. So Cody continues his quest, but this time he has company - and a problem, in the form of a cute, sassy but tough and cynical little blond by the name of Clarisse. Unfortunately she is not "the girl." But somehow they wind up as traveling companions on the run from mob vengeance. As they crisscross the country from coast to coast, Cody finds himself in possession of a strange wooden box that kings, tyrants and even churchmen have been willing to kill for down through the ages. The good news is that the mysterious box might be his path to salvation. The bad news is that if it falls into the wrong hands the entire world could suffer an eternity of misery, terror and death. Contributor Bio:  Wasley, Ric Ric Wasley is a writer and lecturer as well as the author of the popular McCarthy Mystery Series set in Boston in 1968. Ric has a forty-year professional career history in advertising, publishing, and marketing in Boston, New York, and San Francisco. He has degrees in history and psychology and has been trained in debating, public speaking, and stage acting. A large part of his forty-year career was spent in numerous professional and business settings as a presenter and featured speakerat seminars and professionalmeetings. Ric has been a visiting professor at Worcester Polytech Institute. He also teaches a popular course on marketing for authors at prominent venues such as the venerable Cape Cod Writers Conference. Of the five books in the McCarthy series, which include the first two, Shadow of Innocence and Acid Test, the most recent is The Scrimshaw, the third in the McCarthy Mystery Series, which was released in late 2009. That will be followed by Black Velvet Band, scheduled for 2016. In addition to the first two McCarthy Mysteries, Ric has also authored Midnight Blue, a quirky vampire tale that combines spectral creatures and nightwalkers with sex, drugs, and Rock & Roll; and Echoes Down a Dark Well, a paranormal thriller about reincarnation; Candle in the Wind, a twist and turn filled historical mystery; and Ric's newest, The Girl with Faraway Eyes, a paranormal historical based on true events! Ric has also authored the semi-autobiographical novella, At my Window with a Broken Wing, and two short stories, "Embers" and "The Night." Plus a brand new story, "Long Black Veil" that appears in the anthology Weirdly Vol. 3. Just like Mick in his McCarthy Mysteries Series, Ric thrived on music in the sixties and performed as a folksinger and in several rock bands all over New England. He played regularly in the Harvard Sq. folk music clubs in the late '60s where he met music legends such as Bob Dylan and Joan Baez. Wasley has been involved in both print and broadcast media as well as writing for business and commercial markets for over thirty years and continues to consult for a major media company. In addition to his novels and short stories, he has been published in several literary magazines in L. A. and San Francisco while living in California. Wasley currently divides his time between traveling and his home on Cape Cod where he continues to write, lecture, and create worlds where the unexpected thrives.