Catriona
1893
David Balfour survived the heather and the hunted moors of 'Kidnapped.' Now, in the autumn of 1752, he wears the clothes of a gentleman and carries a legal document proving his claim to the estate of Shaws. But respectability is harder to wear than a stolen horse. When Catriona Drummond appears on the streets of Edinburgh, wild-haired and fierce, she brings with her a request that threatens to unravel everything David has built: deliver a message to her father, James More, a Jacobite prisoner languishing in the Tower of London. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game through the streets of the capital and across the North Sea to the Netherlands, where David must navigate dangerous political waters, outwit spies, and guard a secret that could cost him his life. At its heart, 'Catriona' is a romance wrapped in a cloak-and-dagger adventure, where the greatest danger is not capture but the dangerous, consuming weight of love and loyalty in a world that has already tried once to destroy David Balfour.
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“A good conscience is eight parts of courage.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“You deal with me very frankly, and I thank you for it,' said I. 'I will try on my side to be no less honest. I believe these deep duties may lie upon your lordship; I believe you may have laid them on your conscience when you took the oaths of the high office which you hold. But for me, who am just a plain man--or scarce a man yet--the plain duties must suffice. I can think but of two things, of a poor soul in the immediate and unjust danger of a shameful death, and of the cries and tears of his wife that still tingle in my head. I cannot see beyond, my lord. It's the way I am made. If the country has to fall, it has to fall. And I pray God, if this is wilful blindness, that He may enlighten me before too late.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company’s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
“But that's the strange thing about you folk of the college learning: ye're ignorant, and ye canna see't. Wae's me for my Greek and Hebrew; but, man, I ken that I dinna ken them--- there's the differ of it.””
— Robert Louis Stevenson
