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What if telling the truth puts your freedom, your friendships, and your hopes of love at risk?
David Balfour has secured his inheritance, but safety brings a harder duty. In Robert Louis Stevenson’s Catriona, he goes to Edinburgh with evidence that could help James Stewart, who faces trial for the Appin murder. David believes honesty should be enough. Yet his loyalty to Alan Breck Stewart, wanted for the same murder, places him at odds with the authorities.
Then David meets Catriona Drummond, whose attachment to her troubled father, James MacGregor, tests her growing love for him. In eighteenth-century Scotland, prisons, influence, and divided loyalties shape their choices. As this continuation of Kidnapped moves toward courtship, David faces another kind of uncertainty: how to find the right words, understand another person, and know when to yield.
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- Honesty under pressure Follow David as his determination to give evidence brings him up against political power.
- Friendship at a cost David’s help for Alan makes loyalty a dangerous choice rather than an easy promise.
- A proud, difficult love Meet Catriona, caught between her father’s demands and her growing attachment to David.
- Courtesy and power Encounter Prestongrange, the Lord Advocate whose courteous manner sits beside the demands of government.
- The awkward work of courtship Discover a romance where good intentions cannot replace careful words and an understanding of motives.
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Who’s who
- David BalfourA young Scotsman whose determination to act honestly draws him into political danger and a difficult courtship.
- Catriona DrummondJames MacGregor’s proud daughter, torn between her attachment to her father and her growing love for David.
- Alan Breck StewartDavid’s Highland friend, wanted for the Appin murder and dependent on loyal help to escape.
- PrestongrangeThe Lord Advocate, whose courteous treatment of David sits alongside the demands of government power.
- James MacGregorCatriona’s father, whose troubles and demands place a heavy burden on her loyalty.
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by Robert Louis Stevenson· 1893
David Balfour faces political pressure while defending an innocent man.
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David Balfour has survived the dangers of Kidnapped and secured his inheritance, but safety brings a new responsibility. He knows facts that could help James Stewart, who faces trial for the Appin murder. In Scotland after the failed Jacobite rising, that trial is more than a search for the truth. Clan rivalry, government authority, and fear of rebellion shape what people are willing to hear.
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Robert Louis Stevenson
1850–1894 · Scottish novelist and poet
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and poet, born in Edinburgh in 1850. He wrote Treasure Island (1883), A Child’s Garden of Verses (1885), and Kidnapped and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886). He settled in Samoa in 1890 and died there in 1894.
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Is Catriona a sequel to Kidnapped?
Yes. Catriona continues David Balfour’s story after Kidnapped, carrying forward his friendship with Alan Breck and the consequences of the Appin murder. Reading Kidnapped first gives the political dangers and personal loyalties a clearer foundation.
What is Catriona about?
Catriona follows David Balfour as he tries to help James Stewart, who is accused in connection with the Appin murder. His efforts bring him into conflict with political authority. At the same time, he falls in love with Catriona Drummond and struggles to understand her loyalties.
Is Catriona based on a true story?
The novel uses the historical Appin murder and the prosecution of James Stewart as its background. Stevenson places fictional David Balfour within those events. It is historical fiction, not a factual account of David’s adventures or his romance with Catriona.
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