What if you could meet your father before he became your father?

Alexander Hudson can read thirty-seven languages. At his own dinner table, he mostly manages "salt."

His father, Mike, is metronomic: a man of fixed hours, careful habits and feelings he keeps folded away. Their conversations are short. Their silences are long.

Then one absurd wish, and one flickering lightbulb, open a door to 1999. Alexander wakes up as Jim Harrison, his young father's best friend.

The Mike he meets there is pure energy: loud, funny, reckless and full of plans, a man before life happened to him. For the first time, father and son are easy together.

But 1999 is also where the trouble began. Somewhere in that year are the secrets that broke his parents' marriage, and the first clues to a far bigger mystery: how time travel works, and who is keeping count.

Warm, wry and quietly heartbreaking, Traveler 941: My Father's Best Friend is a time-travel novel about fathers and sons, second chances, and the things we keep meaning to say.

Book One of the Traveler 941 trilogy.

For readers of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, The Midnight Library and A Man Called Ove.