Gara Schmerkin has been a star most of her life - from her days as Baby Gara, a minor league threat to Shirley Temple, to adult stardom as Gara St. James. She's avoided scandal for most of her career, even while causing the car crash that ruined Montgomery Clift's face, all the way to an onset altercation that sent Lindsay Lohan on the road to career destruction. But with hostile old friends (fellow ex-starlets Barbara Lamont and Gloria Prescott) against her, as well as the family of her third ex-husband (Lord Lindale "Laddie" Fotheringay Bottomly) on the warpath following the reading of his will, can Gara get her fame and finances back on track? If she knows what's good for her, she'll rely on her daughter Pet and loyal assistant Peony (not to mention her own fortitude and fractured wit) to avoid the barbed tongues of her frenemies and the danger at Brownmoor, her former husband's English estate. Is someone merely angry about Gara's swooping in for a chunk of her ex's will, or is someone willing to kill to keep family secrets from discovery? Passages interspersed between the story's chapters utilize newspaper articles (gossip columns and the Police Gazette have the scoop!), tell-all excerpts (producers, fellow stars, and the like dish on working with Gara), and movie reviews (anyone for "Bride of the Golem" or "The Diplomat Wore Tights"?) which offer details to the past and clues to the tantalizing mysteries of WHAT'S GOOD FOR GARA.
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