First published 2009
Jackson Power built a Manhattan real estate empire that bears his name on glittering skyscrapers across the city. He married Cynthia Hunsaker, a former prima ballerina from Missouri who now sits on the New York Ballet Theater board. After twenty-five years of marriage, their silver anniversary party at the Waldorf becomes a disaster when the New York Post runs photos of Jackson dancing with Cynthia alongside images of him leaving his mistress Lara Sizemore's apartment that same night. Jackson wants to divorce Cynthia and marry Lara, a morning television star who represents everything his elegant wife is not. Cynthia refuses to disappear quietly. The couple wages war through changed locks on their Park Avenue triplex and sabotaged dinner parties. Their daughter Vivienne sides with Cynthia while Jackson pays young playwright Adrian to seduce his wife into an easy settlement. But Cynthia has her own strategies hidden in her Chanel sleeves, and both sides deploy every weapon available in their divorce arsenal.
Genres: fiction, romance, contemporary, divorce, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, family-drama
Setting: Manhattan, Missouri, New York, Park Avenue
Period: 21st-century
369 pages · Hardcover · Simon & Schuster