Ella Rutherford longs for more than society allows. Obedience, refinement, and marriage-all have been politely refused. Despite her mother's tireless matchmaking, Ella prefers spinsterhood and to hide her fiercest thoughts behind the anonymity of ink. But when war reaches the heart of Washington and tragedy drives her from the only home she has known, Ella finds herself trapped with the smug Grant Dashwood-a jaded war correspondent with obligations of his own and little patience for genteel convention. What begins as a battle of wits soon deepens into a bond forged in fire. Yet as pressure mounts to conform, to marry, to abandon the words that once gave her purpose, Ella must choose between the safety of silence and the dangerous liberty of being heard. Lushly atmospheric and emotionally resonant, The Editor's Daughter is a story of ink and independence, love and duty, set against the smoldering backdrop of a nation at war.