title: The Arrangements
author: Liller, Laura
description: Ellie Jordan dreams of becoming an artist, a lofty goal for a girl who scrubs floors for a living. Her fantasies of being bathed in beauty and color are what sustain her during the relentless gray of the Great Depression. After falling in love with David Fairchild, the son of her employer, El-lie discovers the full weight of a tyrant's yoke. Class-conscious and unprincipled Eve Fairchild has no intention of allowing a romance to continue between her cherished son and a girl from the wrong side of the tracks. When the skies darken with the looming clouds of war, Eve's sim-ple plan to get rid of Ellie becomes an opportunity with more scope than Eve could have ever imagined.A series of Arrangements take Ellie from the squalid riverbanks of her hometown to the glamorous fashion capital of 1930's Paris. After meeting acclaimed fashion designer Henrí Charon, she is transformed from small-town girl to the darling of the Place Vendôme and the Paris smart set. The outbreak of World War II and the ruthless Nazi occupation of France set Ellie on a new mission as she joins Henrí in the dark venues of underground life to work for the Resistance. Little does she suspect David is across the Channel, piloting a B-17 with The US Army Air Corps.