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“Life is the open road”

James Wood is a writer, artist, musician and coffee aficionado who has interviewed some of the biggest names in entertainment for worldwide media outlets as well as his hometown newspaper. He is the author of Neapolitan Sky (Gatekeeper Press) and the co-author of three children’s picture books with all proceeds going to charity.

He’s written more than 1500 articles and interviews over the last 15 years, most of which you can find on this website. His interviews have been featured on such outlets as Yahoo! and AXS as well as in the pages of Guitar World magazine.

He’s presented at various award ceremonies for student musicals, donates his time and talent to various causes and, in his spare time, is an aspiring watercolorist.

James’ new book, the 356-page suspense thriller and part memoir, “The Seventh Echo,” arrives Summer 2026.

Synopsis:

“Some secrets are buried for a reason.”

Dan Mercer has spent thirty years rebuilding broken places. As Director of Acquisitions and Development for a major logistics firm, he’s transformed abandoned factories, empty lots, and forgotten industrial sites into thriving developments. With retirement finally within reach, the redevelopment of the long-abandoned Iron Forge property should be one last routine project before he walks away for good.

Instead, it becomes a nightmare.

When Dan returns to the town he left behind decades ago, he finds himself drawn into a mystery surrounding the abandoned industrial site that once defined the community. Strange events begin to follow him. Official explanations stop making sense. And a seven-year-old boy starts appearing wherever the project takes him.

Watching. Waiting. Issuing warnings no one else can hear. The child bears an impossible resemblance to Dan himself.

At first, Dan dismisses the boy as a stress-induced hallucination brought on by work pressures, pending retirement, and the lingering scars of a painful divorce. But when the child begins revealing details no stranger could possibly know, Dan is forced to confront questions about the past he has spent a lifetime avoiding.

As construction plans move forward and long-buried truths begin to surface, Dan finds himself caught between powerful interests determined to keep the past hidden and a growing sense that something beneath Iron Forge refuses to stay buried. With time running out, he must uncover the truth before it disappears forever.

Part environmental thriller, part supernatural mystery, and part exploration of memory, guilt, and redemption, The Seventh Echo is a haunting suspense novel about the secrets we bury-and the echoes they leave behind.