About the Book…

Ever wanted a do-over? Ever dreamed of going back to a time long past, for another chance at something important?

Cash writes for a small-town newspaper and is weary of his routine life, until a fire at long-closed service station leads him to seventeen 1957 Chevys, to Joey, the niece of the town’s fire chief, and to a lonely, brilliant old man. At the nursing home where he lives, the frail old man, Ray Albertson, spins stories for the residents and staff, and mourns his beautiful wife, dead years before. He also has plans to see her again. All Ray must do is convince Cash he is not delusional, not hurrying his own death, and convince Cash to help him somehow travel back in time.

From the book…

Joey and I stopped our work and sat on the edge of the tub, neither of us knowing what to say. Ray Albertson had now expressed a bit of what I had been concerned of all along. Were we following an old man who had lost his way and his mind? Were we following a sort of Don Quixote, as he tilted foolishly at the windmills set on the unshakable foundation of the universe, driven on by the romantic idea of a final kiss and goodbye?

“Call me Sancho,” I said quietly to myself, but somehow Ray heard, looked up to me and laughed loudly again.

“Exactly!” he said, “Very good!”