Jane The Janitor And The Janiculum Zone

 A perpetually lonely night-shift janitor discovers that her run-down school is the central nexus for all time portals, and she’s the only one left to keep the reality-leaking mess from swallowing the universe.

Jane has spent her life perfecting the art of being invisible. After aging out of the foster care system, she survives by bouncing between cities, working odd jobs, and keeping her social battery at absolute zero. Her only sanctuary is the crushing, predictable solitude of a night-shift custodial job. She wants nothing more than to be left alone, but the universe has other plans.

​When Jane is named the executor of a will for the mother who abandoned her, she inherits a dilapidated log cabin deep in a forest and she discovers a world where technology and magic collide in impossible ways.

​Her life is dismantled when she accepts a night-shift position at the local school, only to realize the building is a dying, portal-ridden ruin that needs an exorcist more than a mop. Plunged into a chaotic war between interdimensional pests, glitching reality-constructs, and ancient, bitter family legacies, Jane finds herself fighting alongside a six-year-old sister who has been trapped in a time portal for twenty years.

​As the fabric of time begins to freeze, Jane must stop scrubbing floors and start closing rifts. With a broom she discovers that her "trauma-informed" isolation wasn't a choice, it was a survival mechanism for the last living heir of Janus.

​Now, she must face the truth about her parents’ disappearance, confront the clockwork horrors lurking in the school, and decide if she is finally ready to stop running and hold the line. 

​Themes: Found family, the weight of inherited trauma, learning to trust, and finding one's purpose in the most unlikely places.

​Readers who enjoy Dungeon Crawler Carl or Outlander, blending high-stakes, surreal supernatural threats with sharp, cynical humor and deeply grounded emotional stakes.