What's in a Code Name?

by Tee Morris

“He could still see her face, her eyes. And her hair. The way it flowed around her when she pulled up a storm around her. Daniel kept trying to refer to this husk in front of him as ‘Saturn’ but she never liked her code name…‘Ion,’ he said, ‘now is not the time to mourn our fallen. That time will come, but not tonight.’”

Harbinger Institute senior student, Daniel Hessler (age nineteen, code name “Ion”), watches fellow Anoisaibushi, Susan Adams (age nineteen, code name “Saturn”), die at the hand of Toyo Harada in order for the founder and leader of the Harbinger Institute to save himself following a savage attack from Bloodshot. Standing over Susan’s still, lifeless body with his master calling out to him, Daniel finds himself questioning everything Harbinger and Harada has been teaching him.

Tee Morris’s What’s in a Code Name?, a stand-alone sequel to Harbinger Wars # 2, is another thrilling instalment in the Harbinger series.

46 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 8, 2013

About the author

Tee Morris began his writing career with his 2002 historical epic fantasy, MOREVI The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana. In 2005 Tee took MOREVI into the then-unknown podosphere, making his novel the first book podcast in its entirety. That experience led to the founding of Podiobooks.com and collaborating with Evo Terra and Chuck Tomasi on Podcasting for Dummies and its follow-up, Expert Podcasting Practices for Dummies. He won acclaim and accolades for his cross-genre fantasy-detective Billibub Baddings Mysteries, the podcast of The Case of the Singing Sword winning him the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Audio Drama. Along with those titles, Tee has written articles and short stories for BenBella Books’s Farscape Forever: Sex, Drugs, and Killer Muppets, the podcast anthology VOICES: New Media Fiction, BenBella Books’ So Say We All: Collected Thoughts and Opinions of Battlestar Galactica, and Dragon Moon Press’ Podthology: The Pod Complex.

In 2011, Tee returned to his first love—fiction—with the steampunk romp Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel, co-authored with Philippa Ballantine. This debut novel from Harper Voyager won the 2011 Airship Award for Best Steampunk Literature. Now the series includes The Janus Affair (Harper Voyager), Dawn's Early Light (Ace Books), and the Ministry Protocol anthology (Imagine That! Studios). Find out more at ministryofpeculiaroccurrences.com.

When he is not writing, Tee enjoys life in Virginia alongside Philippa Ballantine, his daughter, and three cats.