<B>Calysta Jeffries</B> is the hottest black actress in daytime and <I>the </i>diva of the soap opera world, known for her role as Ruby Stargazer on television's most popular soap opera, "The Rich and the Ruthless." <P>After fifteen years, three returns from the dead, two failed pregnancies, one alien abduction, and overcoming retrograde amnesia, Calysta still hasn't managed to snag the biggest award in daytime drama: the Sudsy. Now is supposed to be her moment. But Calysta's onscreen/offscreen rival Emmy Abernathy wins the award for the fourth time. The drama begins when journalist Mitch Morelli asks Calysta for a quote after the award show and her true feelings for her costar slip out. <P>Ripped from the headlines of <I>Soap Opera Digest </i>and straight off of the television screen, <I>Secrets of a Soap Opera</i> <I>Diva </i>will give readers plenty to talk about as they try to guess where the real world ends and Rowell's imagination begins.