Saoirse (Sur-shuh) “CC” Gallagher never expected to trade the newsroom for an advertising war room, but when J. Calvin Thornton Advertising offered her a chance to shape the nation’s message for the war effort, she stepped into the male-dominated world of Madison Avenue. Tasked with convincing employers to hire women as war replacements, CC—herself a war replacement for Joe Butler—finds herself fighting battles on multiple fronts: against skeptical businessmen, her colleague, the relentless DeWitt, and even her doubts about whether she belongs.

 

Meanwhile, Captain Joe Butler fights a very different war. A brilliant copywriter turned B-24 bomber pilot, Joe’s letters to CC are more than mere words—they are his connection to hope, his proof that a future beyond the war exists. Over months and missions, the two fall in love through ink and paper, even as the war threatens to keep them apart.

 

When Joe’s plane is shot down after a bombing the Berlin Train Station striking at the heart of the Third Reich, CC’s world shatters. As he fights to survive in a POW camp, CC finds herself on a different battlefield—London, where she must convince the British to trust an American woman with their struggling war recruitment efforts. She faces resistance, devastating losses, and a growing fear that the war will take everything before she and Joe ever meet.

 

From the boardrooms of New York to the skies over Europe, from hushed phone calls to a war-torn reunion, Two for Victory is a heart-wrenching, triumphant story about love, war, and the women who refused to wait for history to be written for them.