The Custodians
Jacalyn S Burke
Publication date is March 11, 2024.
Monsters do exist and they are one vacation away.
The Custodians is a character-driven thriller series about being in the wrong place at the wrong time. It takes place in a sleepy little town with a big bad secret. British couple Tom and Catherine Grayston head to a picturesque town in Southwest France called Rousinac, to save their marriage. But the idyllic setting is a trap. It harbors a lethal conspiracy protected by a secret society founded in World War II.
The tourists’ disappearance piques the curiosity of mutual friends: a New Scotland Yard forensics expert David Frankel and a famous criminal profiler James Harrison.
When the duo arrive in Rousinac, they have no idea how quickly they’ll get sucked into the same black web spun. A black web spun over 70-years from the town’s castle dungeons.
The Custodians, takes us down a rabbit hole, tapping into our collective fears about monsters, conspiracies, Nazis, secret societies and the Deep State.
Jacalyn S Burke
Jacalyn S. Burke, a British-American writer, entrepreneur and artist, moved to the US in 2002 to document the emerging Street Art scene in New York City. For the next fifteen years she worked as a tutor, a governess/nanny, an artist, a tech start up founder and a commercial artist.
In 2015, Praeger (now Bloomsbury) published Jacalyn’s non-fiction work, The Nanny Time Bomb – Navigating the Crisis in Child Care. The book was based upon Jacalyn’s experiences working for Manhattan’s 1%. It was also reviewed by The New York Times, in the ‘Wealth Matters’ weekly column.
