Brooke Shaffer

The Time industry has fallen, the Hands of Time have been overthrown, Walter and Micaiah have been captured, and Rifun and Cassius rule.Dark times have come to the universe and a shadow of fear and uncertainty blankets the survivors, Tommen and Micah included. They knows it's only a matter of time before Rifun and Cassius begin to mop up, and they're prime targets, especially when the hounds of war are sent out to track down those who escaped the...

Mississippi, 1730Kokumbo has only ever known slavery, and he's decided he's had enough. When he revolts and flees through the British American South and eventually back across the ocean to Africa, seeking both freedom and revenge, he encounters a group of former slaves with such power that they could potentially end slavery forever.Madagascar, 1923Rivotra finds himself on a chain gang, convicted of treason against the French government, yet hated...

Civil war looms in the Wheel, hanging over the heads of the voters as everyone wonders whether the Time industry is heading toward another Dispersal. With rumors of a False Zero Hour taking center stage ahead of Voting Day, everyone is on high alert.Few understand this better than Tommen as he prepares to go before the Hands for his Apprentice review, knowing that Rifun may be all that stands between him and the vengeful Grandfathers.Even Walter is...

Tommen Forbes is basically your average sixteen year old: hates school, likes girls, desperate to get his license so he doesn't have to be stuck at home. Oh, and he's really a hundred and sixty years old with the ability to bend Time, to make it go faster or slower at will. His dad, Homicide Detective Walter Forbes, also has this ability. They are called Timekeepers. They answer to the Hands of Time and are charged with protecting Time itself from...

The camp is destroyed, thousands of acres burned to the ground, and all but one person is accounted for. When Tommen wakes up in a forest of ash, he makes a startling discovery-well, more startling than being cold, alone, injured, infected, and concussed. He's invisible and incorporeal. Somehow, in the chaos of the fire, he was thrown into the Land In Between, from which no one has ever returned. Worse, Time does not work in the Land In Between, meaning...