New York: Mysterious Press, (1999) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - "Super-bankable, way-hot movie star Nadia Wentworth has found her dream role: the all-powerful, eternally beautiful Kali-Ra, Queen of Doom-one of pulp fiction's most famous characters. Even better, no one stands between Nadia owning all the rights to the Kali-Ra novels. As far as Nadia's assistant, Melanie, can tell, Kali-Ra's creator, dissolute 1920 s novelist Valerian Ricardo, left no heirs. So, it seems that no power on earth can stop the return of Kali-Ra-or prevent Nadia from gaining untold profits and worldwide mega-stardom...That is, until a cast of mysterious characters descend on Nadia's exotic Beverly Hills mansion." INSCRIBED on the title page and dated 3-13-99, in the month of publication. 229 pp. ISBN: 0-89296670X.