Jugum Press: 9 books

**They say you can’t go home again—not when chaos reigns … ** A murder in a Seattle coffee house. A murder on a decaying boat dock. Samsara Byron, the security expert, insists this has nothing to do with her. She’s busy fending off an attack on the world’s cyber infrastructure—if only...

Samsara Ada Byron, world’s best cybersecurity sleuth! Or a postpunk math dweeb lost in a darknet web of deceit? Sam has a new security forensics business. No more national security contracting! But Tony, the infamous Pirate King of the dark alleys of the Internet, begs Sam’s help to expose...

He said, “I love you.” She said, “You don’t even know the real me.” He said, “Great title for a song. Key of G? Can you sing the high parts? Close harmony?” ** ** Two musicians meet by accident in Seattle. Jason, the infamous singer-songwriter, is a victim of falsehoods spread on...

When Idren the hunter leaves his Atlas Mountains home to work as a mercenary in Andalusia, his grandmother warns that it's his turn to change the world. Barefooted, with only a spear and a bow? For this stranger coming to a strange land in 1190, it seems ancient magic is needed to help an innocent...

How to fight when enemies turn an unjust war against you? Bone-mend and Salt, Book 1 in the Accidental Heretics series, launches an adventure of conspiracy and revenge amidst the crusade against the Cathar heresy in southern Europe in 1210. A Moorish mercenary—mutilated and left to die, harangued...

How do you rise up at the dawn of the Inquisition? Pursued across medieval Languedoc by an unknown adversary, three unlikely companions join forces. Tomas the mercenary persists in his quest for revenge, but slashes deep wounds in his own soul. Jean-Luc, an exiled and heartbroken knight, searches...

**Down medieval alleys, across Andalusian rooftops. Seeking justice, pursued by assassins.** Tomas, the mercenary, is sent by Pedro d'Aragon to disrupt the defense when Castile and Aragon invade Moorish Andalusia in 1212. There, some say Tomas inherited El Cid's magical sword and demand...

Isabella, the steward of Valeros in the eastern Pyrenees, has twice been falsely condemned as a heretic. In 1210, Isabella and Tomas, the mercenary she married, identified their archenemy: a secret society called Crux Lunata. At the siege of Minerve, Isabella narrowly escaped being burned with the...

Heat shimmers on the Andalusian frontier. Apparitions of saints manifest amid treachery and tragedy. War drums pound, echoing up the valleys where Moorish farmers and Berber mercenaries stand ready to resist the Christian invaders. The starving armies of Castile and Aragon are unable to find a path...