Hollywood has made a star of Todd

Pickett. But time is catching up with him. He

doesn t have the perfect looks he had last

year. After plastic surgery goes awry, Todd

needs somewhere to hide away for a few

months while his sears heal.

As Todd settles into a mansion in Cold-

heart Canyon--a corner of the city so secret

it doesn t even appear on any map--Tammy

Lauper, the president of his fan club, comes

to the City of Angels determined to solve the

mystery of Todd s disappearance. Her jour-

ney will not be an easy one. The closer she

gets to Todd the more of Coldheart Canyon s

secrets she uncovers: the ghosts of the A-list

stars who came to the Canyon for wild par-

ties; Katya Lupi, the cold-bearted, now-

forgotten star for whom the Canyon was

named, who is alive and exquisite after a

hundred years; and, finally, the door in the

bowels of Katya s dream palace that reput-

edly open up to another world, the Devil s

Country. No one who has ever ventured to

this dark, barbaric corner of hell has re-

turned without their souls shadowed by what

they d seen and done.