num_pages: 391
description: Having lived the life of hunted men with soldiers scouring the moors for them and blood money upon their heads, David leaves Alan in hiding and returns to Edinburgh to lay claim as heir to his uncle Ebenezer’s estate. Aided by the forbidding but kind-hearted lawyer, Mr Hope of Rankeillor, a plot is hatched to trick the miser who had long ago lured his nephew away to a ship bound for slavery in the Carolinas. Now more politically astute and experienced in the wiles of less decent folk, David must learn to play his part as an eligible gentleman-about-town—a task equally ridden with pitfalls.But first, at great peril, and at the risk of jeopardising his own innocence, David determines to see Alan escape from his beloved Scotland and to secure the acquittal of James Stewart of the Glens, awaiting trial for the Appin murder. All this while, the young hero is intrigued by the wilful, infuriatingly proud but beautiful Catriona; the chief obstacle to their romance being her loyalty to her father, James More, the avowed enemy of Alan Breck.This sequel to the peerless Kidnapped forms part of a series of RLS novels in Harvill Trade Paperbacks and is offset from the elegant 1895 Edinburgh Edition of the Collected Works.
language: English
title: Catriona
titlecomplete: Catriona
characters: David Balfour, Catriona Drummond, Alan Breck Stewart
genres: Fiction, Historical, Adventure, British Literature, Scotland, Literature, Romance, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 1483
places: Leiden, Scotland, Tantallon Castle, East Lothian, Scotland
series: David Balfour
publisher: Harvill Press