Inspired by true events, The Queen of Paris, a new novel from award-winning author Pamela Binnings Ewen, colorfully portrays the hidden life of Coco Chanel during the four years of Nazi occupation of Paris in the middle of World War II, as revealed in recently discovered wartime archives. Coco Chanel could be provocative, cheerful, reckless and generous, but she could also be ruthless, sometimes even cruel, able to manipulate people. At a time when the winds of war are blowing and the Wehrmacht is marching down the Champs-Élysées, Chanel finds herself at the Ritz Hotel, the residence of the Reich's highest command. Surrounded by an enemy, she wages a private war to wrest power over her perfume company from the hands of her Jewish business partner, Pierre Wertheimer. As Coco Chanel tries her best to keep her sources of income and her new life of luxury intact, Paris sinks to the ground under the iron fist of German rule. Coco Chanel will do anything to survive. She even agrees to collaborate with the Nazis to protect her darkest secrets. When Germany secretly recruits her as a spy for the Reich, she becomes Agent F-7124, codenamed Westminster. But why? How far will she go to prevent her turbulent past from haunting her in the future?