"As I sat waiting, I became more and more dazed and distant. I quietly prayed as I thought about Dad and all that he means to me."

On a warm August morning in 1997, thirty something author Bryan Hogan woke suddenly to the sound of his mother's panicked voice as she frantically tried to awaken his lifeless father, Bill. In that sad moment, life for the Hogan family was forever changed.

After a day of profound grief, Bryan fell asleep feeling empty and exhausted. To his disbelief, he awoke after a full night's sleep to find that his deceased father was still alive. But how could that be?...