Companion Chronicles

Jacob Kind is your friend. He is your helper. Jacob loves everyone, in fact.He loves his adopted mother, Sylvia, most of all. Jacob is a synthetic Companion, created specifically to be whatever his Primary, owner, wishes him to be. He isn't allowed to harm humans and, in fact, is devoted to humanity and art.Right up until Jacob interrupts a masked man murdering Sylvia in their home and is blamed for the vicious crime. The police believe he's the culprit, Companion company executives want him returned for reprogramming to prevent a PR nightmare, but Jacob only wishes to bring Sylvia's killer to justice. Which he is going to have to do on his own.So now Jacob is running. After her killer and toward justice, with but one guiding light that his mother left him.Serve and protect humanity, at all costs. JOSHUA TODD JAMES is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright based in New York City. He's written the feature films Pound Of Flesh, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Take Cover, starring Alice Eve and Scott Adkins, among others. Books include THE COMPANION CHRONICLES, detailing the adventures of synthetic person Jacob Kind in the novellas SOME ANIMALS, MINORITY OF ONE, FREEDOM RUN, MAN IN THE BOX, RENEGADE, and DOMO ARIGATO, MR ROBOTO. Joshua is a member of WGAE and likes ice-cold tea, cool summer breezes, and hot Brazilian Jiujitsu.More from the author here: joshuatoddjames.substack.com

Synthetic Companion Jacob Kind is on the run from the police and searching for Munson Tolliver, the man who murdered his adopted mother, Sylvia. Tolliver was an infamous serial killer who fascinated the nation... and who was supposed to be dead at the time of Sylvia's death.Clearly, he is not dead. Nor does anyone believe Jacob that Tolliver is still alive.As a result, Jacob heads to the site of Munson's first public killing, in South Bend, IN, to search for clues in Tolliver's past that will help Jacob locate him. Jacob also has to learn to pass as human, which gives him a unique insight into humanity, especially when he finds himself embroiled in a very public, very violent protest against the use of synthetics, one that has pitted the city against itself.Against his will, Jacob is drawn to a pair of women: Claire, an advocate for synthetic rights, and Companion-hating Candis, a desperate woman working the streets to provide for her young daughter, Bethany.It leads to a brutal confrontation that threatens to change Jacob forever. JOSHUA TODD JAMES is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright based in New York City. He's written the feature films Pound Of Flesh, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Take Cover, starring Alice Eve and Scott Adkins, among others. Books include THE COMPANION CHRONICLES, detailing the adventures of synthetic person Jacob Kind in the novellas SOME ANIMALS, MINORITY OF ONE, FREEDOM RUN, MAN IN THE BOX, RENEGADE, and DOMO ARIGATO, MR ROBOTO. Joshua is a member of WGAE and likes ice-cold tea, cool summer breezes, and hot Brazilian Jiujitsu.More from the author here: joshuatoddjames.substack.com

Jacob Kind, a synthetic person on the run for a murder he did not commit, finds himself mistaken for a professional assassin in a mining town. Needing the cash, he takes the money from the mining CEO and goes to warn the intended victim, a Native environmentalist named Raven Running Wolf, only to fall in love with her. Vowing to protect her, Jacob engages in a cat-and-mouse game as he plays both sides off of each other, the mining company and it's gang of killers and Raven's team of violent environmental terrorists. JOSHUA TODD JAMES is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright based in New York City. He's written the feature films Pound Of Flesh, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, and Take Cover, starring Alice Eve and Scott Adkins, among others. Books include THE COMPANION CHRONICLES, detailing the adventures of synthetic person Jacob Kind in the novellas SOME ANIMALS, MINORITY OF ONE, FREEDOM RUN, MAN IN THE BOX, RENEGADE, and DOMO ARIGATO, MR ROBOTO. Joshua is a member of WGAE and likes ice-cold tea, cool summer breezes, and hot Brazilian Jiujitsu.More from the author here: joshuatoddjames.substack.com