When Mrs Gaia Champion hosts her first supper after the untimely death of her adored husband Hercules, the meal goes sadly awry. Enter gay hero Bellerophon "Belle" Nash: city councillor, grandson of Bath's original Master of Ceremonies Beau Nash, and bachelor extraordinaire. Assisted by a group of eccentric lady friends, Belle sets out to explore Gaia's culinary mishap, only to expose a web of corruption that goes to the heart of Regency Bath's judicial system. In doing so, he struggles to retain the commitment of his German "cousin", and Princess Victoria-not yet Queen-persuades Gaia that all women can defeat the bonds of male repression. Welcome to The Gay Street Chronicles!