David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, the Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent the Appin Murder; His Troubles with Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity on the Bass Rock; Journey into Holland and France; and Singular Relations with James More Drummond or Macgregor, a Son of the Notorious Rob Roy, and His Daughter Catriona
1893
David Balfour: Being Memoirs of His Adventures at Home and Abroad, the Second Part: In Which Are Set Forth His Misfortunes Anent the Appin Murder; His Troubles with Lord Advocate Grant; Captivity on the Bass Rock; Journey into Holland and France; and Singular Relations with James More Drummond or Macgregor, a Son of the Notorious Rob Roy, and His Daughter Catriona
1893
The year is 1751. Two years after his Hairy MacLeod adventures, David Balfour has transformed from impoverished orphan to wealthy laird. But inheritance brings danger, not peace. When David witnesses the Appin murder, he finds himself trapped between a vindictive Lord Advocate and the exiled Jacobites who consider him a traitor. Kidnapped once again, this time he lands on the Bass Rock, that grim prison isle off the Scottish coast, where he languishes for months awaiting a trial that could end his life. From the prison's stone walls to the courts of Holland and France, David pursues justice for a murder he cannot forget. Along the way, he falls desperately in love with Catriona Drummond, the fierce daughter of a Rob Macgregor son, a woman as untamed as the Highlands themselves. Their romance blossoms amid political chaos, forcing David to choose between his safety and his conscience. Stevenson's sequel to Kidnapped is a darker, more complex work: part courtroom thriller, part romantic adventure, all Scottish to its bones. It asks what loyalty means when every side claims righteousness, and what price a man pays for choosing conscience over convenience.
