When the good people of Greenleaf, Pennsylvania condemed Fred Nichols' mother for her adultery, and wept insincerely over her grave, he left town in disgust and wound up in Hollywood, where he remade himself as a fixer for the stars. Now tan and rich, he's making his fat living keeping a rock star actor Tommy Hatcher's wild lifestyle and insatiable desires from creating headlines. But now Tommy's new movie, The Cool and the Haunted, is shooting in Greenleaf, and Fred will have to confront his past to protect the superstar...and save himself.

The novel was published under the title The Star-Cross System in the UK. Morton Cooper Feinberg (1925-2004) was a prolific novelist, ghostwriter, and journalist who wrote over 50 novels under his own name and others, including Mike Crane, Mark Clements, Max Carter and even Mavis Cromwell.