Jane Austen finds herself "insupportably" bored with Bath, and the littleness of a town. It is with relief that she accepts a peculiar commission from her Gentleman Rogue Lord Harold Trowbridge - to shadow his niece, who has fled to Bath to avoid the attentions of the unsavoury Earl of Swithin. But Jane's idle diversion turns deadly when a man is discovered stabbed to death in the Theatre Royal...