THE CUSTODIANS
An Unidentified Occurrences Bureau of Investigations Novel
At 12:04am on a Thursday in October, something appears in the sky above Charlotte, North Carolina. Thirty seconds later, it stops existing.
Willem Roos founded the Unidentified Occurrences Bureau of Investigations to find exactly this kind of thing. His partner, astrophysicist Dr. Katie Marsh, has spent her career making sure they never mistake the inexplicable for the merely unexplained. Their method: eliminate everything probable first. What remains is where the real work begins.
What remains, this time, is unlike anything they have encountered.
As their investigation widens — across continents, across disciplines, across the gap between recorded history and something far older — they begin to understand that the event over Charlotte was not a beginning. It was a signal. That something has been waiting, for a very long time, for someone to notice.
And they are not the only ones looking. Or planning.
Genre: Literary thriller / speculative fiction Word count: Approximately 70,000 words Status: Complete manuscript Series: The UOBI Series — Book One. Designed as a self-standing investigation with series potential.
The Custodians follows seven custodians across four continents as an ancient warning system wakes for the first time in forty thousand years — and as a private organization with fifteen years of preparation moves to control what happens next.
The race against time is personal. The stakes are planetary. The resolution is earned.