Queen takes King

By Gigi Levangie Grazer and Gigi Levangie

Book Overview

Jackson Power. A name like the man himself: aggressive, ambitious, bullish. The prodigal son, heir to millions, built his own Manhattan real estate empire and revels in seeing his moniker - Power! - on glittering skyscrapers around the city that never sleeps. Beneath his desk in the towering Power headquarters, Jacks has a stack of newspapers and photographs of himself, shaking hands with the most famous men and women of his generation. Here's a man who's always loved to see his name in ink. Until now.Cynthia Hunsaker Power. She is the epitome of elegance and society. The perfect foil for a man of Jacks's stature - his first and only wife, he'd proudly tell any of his Master of the Universe (read: Gargoyle) friends. The former prima ballerina arrived in New York at eighteen, off the bus from Missouri, brimming with talent, beauty, and drive. She met a struggling painter, fell in love, and only later learned she'd won the Power lottery. Now she sits on the New York Ballet Theater board, effortlessly outdoing herself with one gala after another. But the press coverage of the Power silver anniversary party at the Waldorf takes the cake.Jacks Power appears twice in the New York Post the next morning - once gallantly dancing with his wife of twenty-five years, Cynthia; and once hand in hand with Lara Sizemore, morning television star, exiting her Upper West Side apartment building that very same night.To Jackson Power, Lara is everything his wife Cynthia is not - wild, voluptuous, mysterious, and self-sustaining. A new passion has swept Jacks off his well-shod feet - and she is Lara Sizemore. He is ready for the divorce, ready to marry his mistress, America's Sweetheart. But Cynthia isn't ready to be swept out of the picture quite so easily.Let the Divorce Games begin.Whether they're changing the locks on each other in their Park Avenue triplex or sabotaging each other's dinner parties, it's The People's Billionaire vs. The Ballerina, in a split-up that will trump the most scandalous divorces known to polite New York society. Cynthia's got their twenty-five-year-old artist daughter, Vivienne, in her camp; Jacks has the young bartending playwright Adrian, whom he intends to pay to seduce Cynthia into an easy split. But Cynthia might have a few tricks up her well-tailored Chanel sleeve, and she - like Jacks - is prepared to use every weapon in her divorce arsenal to win the game. It's a battle of wits, of charm, of two of the biggest egos - and personalities and bank accounts - in Manhattan, and neither side will go down without a fight.From beloved and bestselling author Gigi Levangie Grazer comes a sexy, sassy, smart novel, Queen Takes King.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743291999
• ISBN13: 9780743291996
• Release Date: June 2009
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 367 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

Pure smut

Unless you live for smut, well, I’ll just say, I threw it in the garbage!!

Ideal Summer Reading

I always look forward to a new Gigi Levangie Grazer book because they're breezy and compelling and hilarious. QUEEN TAKES KING delivers, and then some. The characters are rich and gorgeous and live lives to be envied. But Ms. Grazer writes them with such authority that you feel like you know them. A delicious, guilty pleasure for those who love to devour books on a beach.

Real estate is the new sex

An incredibly delicious, wickedly fun, sexy look into how the other 0.005% lives in the world of prime New York real estate. I thought Grazer was so hilarious about high-flying life in LA in "Starter Wife" and "Maneater". Here she just NAILS New York's upper east siders. I was planning to save this for the beach, but then I peeked at the first chapter and then it was all over. SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Must read book of the summer

"Queen Takes King" is a fantastic read. I stayed up way too late because of this book! Once you start reading you just can't put it down. I hope this becomes a tv show like her other books. If you buy this book you won't be disappointed.

BEST BOOK EVER

This book was absolutely enthralling. Grazer does a fantastic job pin pointing the real tension between two people living on New York City's Upper East Side getting a divorce. Being from NYC I know that these divorces happen all the time. The fact that Grazer does not even live in NYC and that she was able to identify what it is like to live and get divorced in NYC shows amazing she is at writing. I agree, this is her best book yet!!!

This book rocks

I read this book in an early version and I heartily recommend it. Gigi Grazer writes about the rich and famous with a knowing, sly wink. She may poke fun at their silly ways but is never mean or snarky. Once again, as she has done with Starter Wife and Maneater, she finds the humanity in people who seem to be above it all. Queen Takes King is impossible to put down! READ IT!!! S.J. Davis