title: The Benevolent Baron
author: St. John, Kitty
description: Esther Hathaway has just been given some bad news.
   Her dear departed grandfather Frederick Glass, a brilliant poet and political dissident, has unfortunately passed on his enormous debts to her family, plunging them into ruin overnight.
  Esther fears all sorts of things. Will she soon be visiting her father imprisoned in the Marshalsea and will they know the depths of despair and shame that comes from poverty?
  If anybody needs a white knight, it’s her. Can her good friend Madalene possibly introduce her to one?  A literary society is throwing a ball, and Madalene wants her to go along with her but as the late great Shakespeare once said ‘The course of true love never did run smooth!’
  A tale of surprise, joy, and deep love set against the glittering and scandalous world of Regency London.