As Christmas of 1804 approaches, 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, Lady Desdemona, 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. Adding to the mystery is an unusual object found on
the victim's body—a pendant that contains a portrait of an
eye! As Jane's fascination with scandal leads her deeper
into the investigation, it becomes clear that she will not
uncover the truth without some dangerous playacting of her
own....
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