Book excerpt: Simon's father has drowned under mysterious circumstances and Simon wants to know why. So when two secretive men turn up with classified information and an offer of a place in an elite school, Simon jumps at the chance-not least because these men seem to know more about his father than they're letting on. This however, is no ordinary school, it is one of the world's most uber secret organisations: The Time Bureau and Simon has been hand chosen for training. Three centuries and multiple time trips later, Simon discovers a world he never knew existed and the story of a father he didn't know as well as he thought he had.