Hammerdahl™

What if someone living 100 years from now could speak directly to you today?

In the year 2126, in a small Nebraska town called Hammerdahl, the roof Ivar Iverson built a hundred years ago finally starts to fail. On the coldest morning of the year, the hot water runs out, water runs across the roof, and Neil Hammer climbs up in the dark to find out why. What he finds starts a year nobody in town will forget.

Neil and his wife, Deborah, are raising four children and one black Springer Spaniel named Baxter in the house Ivar built with his own hands. That year the town races the winter to save every roof. The mountain pass closes. A tornado comes. And Neil finally opens the sixty boxes his great-great-grandfather left behind. Then he finds out he isn’t the only one looking.

Hammerdahl™ is a story about family, neighbors, and a town that pays its own way by fixing what breaks before it breaks. It’s about clever inventions, hard work, honest mistakes, and the kind of people who leave an empty chair at the Thanksgiving table for someone they haven’t met yet.

Written by an inventor, builder, and road builder with more than fifty years in the field, Hammerdahl is frontier fiction inspired by real inventions, real testing, and a lifetime of building.

The future doesn’t begin in 2126. It begins with you.