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: 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.

The Girl With Two Names: Azad

by Patrick G. Daniels M.Ed.

She resigned her commission for the one city on earth where the man who ordered her family’s murder still lives.

Sam Williams has two names, two lives, and one unfinished war. At twenty-six, she leaves the Navy and moves to Ainkawa, Iraq, both her American and Kurdish names on the same lease, close enough to watch and be watched by Khalid, the man who has spent decades hunting her family from the shadows.

He strikes first. A photograph, taken from a window she didn’t know was being watched, arrives at her grandmother’s gate. A message with no words needed: I am still here. I still see you.

What Sam doesn’t expect is her family’s answer. Without her knowledge, without her permission, the village sends four photographs back, of Khalid’s own wife, his own sons, proof that for the first time in thirty years, the watcher is being watched.

As old wounds surface and new alliances form, Sam must decide how far she’ll go, and how much of herself she’ll risk, to finish what her family started a generation ago.

AZAD is Book Four in The Girl With Two Names, the identity thriller series for readers of Kate Quinn and Vaseem Khan, where the personal and the political collide across two names, two countries, and one impossible inheritance.

The Girl With Two Names: Khalid

by Patrick G. Daniels M.Ed.

She has one name for daylight and one for the dark. This is the morning she needs both.

Before dawn, Sam Williams drives toward the compound wall she has circled her whole adult life, because the record she has spent years building is set to release without her, and Khalid has already moved on the village first.

She arrives to find a rifle raised at her family’s threshold. What she does in the next sixty seconds will decide whether the man who took her father’s brother, her mother’s peace, and half her own name finally answers for it, or whether she becomes exactly what he always believed she’d become.

She lowers the weapon. She walks away. And at 0303, without fanfare, without her hand on the trigger, the record files itself.

KHALID is Book Five, the final volume of The Girl With Two Names, the identity thriller series that asked what it costs to carry two names, and now answers what it costs to finally put one down.