title: Rebel Dove
author: Daly, Linda
description: Discover how Elise Hamilton, a feisty, headstrong Southern Spy, and the town of Fairfax, only twenty-six miles from the Union capital of Washington must come to terms with being occupied by the enemy. Pressure mounts with war inevitable, and Virginia is on the verge of seceding. After enduring the hardships, suppression, and anger of this explosive time, Elise painfully comes to understand that-- there is no glory in war, as she had once thought. A path of death and destruction lies before her as the Civil War rages on, changing her life and those she loves forever. In the end, she comes to understand that the love that is shared between a man and a woman is all that truly matters.