The Girl With Two Names

by Patrick G. Daniels M.Ed.

An eighteen-year-old discovers she was born Kurdish and rescued from a bombing meant for her Navy SEAL father—then a patient enemy, Khalid al-Tikriti, and a waking paper trail force her to choose which identity she’ll live by…and which one could get her killed.

The Girl With Two Names: The Blue Door Protocol

by Patrick G. Daniels M.Ed.

Sam Williams survived her first year at the United States Naval Academy. Now someone is rewriting her file. Wellness checks she never requested. Paperwork that changes every time she touches it. An administrative review that has no official name.

NCIS is tracing who has been inside her record. Someone else has been inside her space. Sam is offered one clean exit: resign, stay silent, and disappear.

She won’t.

The Girl With Two Names: Hêvî (Hope)

by Patrick G. Daniels M.Ed.

Ensign Samantha Williams reports to an intelligence analysis cell in Suitland, Maryland, thirty days after graduation. She files her briefs. She watches the same supervisor return the same analysis, every time, within twenty minutes. Forty-two briefs in twenty months. Never an outlier.

She has been watching the pattern. She did not know the pattern was watching her back.

When Vance sets a classified record on the table, Sam reads the date twice. Three months after her Naval Academy enrollment, a contractor firm was already building a file on her and her grandmother. Not because of anything Sam had done. Because of a name. Two women on opposite sides of the world, connected on paper before Sam knew her grandmother existed in any system.

They did not discover the connection. They started with it.