Darkest Time

The Nightshade Guild: Broken Time #5

by Cherron Riser

As if the threat of the Time Scythe isn’t enough, the destruction of it certainly throws the Guild for a loop. Or rather through time. Charlie wakes up in an unknown location and, as she quickly realizes, an unknown time period. The Dark Ages is not where she planned to spend her pregnancy, but it seems she has no other choice. While Ameira works in the future to bring the mages back, Charlie puts her focus on finding her fragment of the Time Scythe along with a pure energy source to boost the spell.

The problem is she has no idea where to look. She feels herself being drawn to the nearby mountains and the magic they radiate. Rumors circle the town of demons and other beings haunting the caverns, but Charlie knows better than to believe human superstition. However, since her arrival, something sinister has begun to stir deep in the pits of the caverns.

Would working with the creatures within the caves help her get home to aid the Guild and the Elvin queen in protecting the future, or will it cause her to be lost forever in the darkest of times?

Darkest Time is #5 of 11 in the Yr 3 - Broken Time Storyline.

182 pages, Paperback

Published June 6, 2023

About the author

Cherron Riser was born in Dothan, Alabama on November 2, 1983. With her family being military, she spent a lot of her early childhood traveling all over the country, giving her a lot of new and different experiences, she would not otherwise have been given. When she turned ten, however, her family settled in the small town of Ozark, Alabama where she finished her high school career.

After high school, Cherron began college, however, was soon forced to drop out to take care of her family. She is the mother of two wonderful children, and they provide a source of inspiration for Cherron’s work. In 2013 Cherron returned to school to finish what she had started all those years ago, and in 2021 she graduated.

All through her life Cherron has been drawn to the arts. As a child she danced and sang all the time, often driving her family crazy. During middle school, a group of friends and Cherron started "The Outcast" a club established for building a love of writing. Once the club was formed, Cherron was never seen without a spiral notebook and pen. She wrote daily, developing silly stories for her friends. After high school, Cherron began to write more serious stories and develop more original plot lines. It is a talent and love Cherron has developed over the years, filling her computer with story after story.

As an author, Cherron began her career as a self-published author in March of 2015. She gives a lot of credit to her family and friends for inspiring her characters and worlds and looks forward to showing them to all of her readers in the near future. Cherron can often be seen at conventions, both for readers and for geeks, as she is and will always be a geek herself, and proud of it.