Catriona

Uncovering a governmental conspiracy to frame a friend for murder puts David Balfour on the run and striving to protect the woman he's come to love.
Released with the title David Balfour when originally released in the United States, Catriona is Robert Louis Stevenson's follow-up to Kidnapped. David Balfour, hero of both books, is made a target by his willingness to testify in favor of a friend falsely accused of murder. His stubborn sense of justice will get him challenged to a duel in which he is clearly overmatched, plotted against, pursued and kidnapped once again. In the midst of the action a fledgling romance appears, as David meets the endearing Catriona, a woman more than a few readers have also been smitten with. Misunderstandings, conniving family members and outright villains combine to keep them from one another and their romance seems doomed before it begins. The story rolls along against a richly depicted historical backdrop of the 18th century, with the author stirring many historical characters, places, and even ships into his tale of adventure and long-suffering love rewarded at last. First published in 1893, Catriona was the last novel the author completed on his own before his untimely death at 44 years of age.
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Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet, travel writer, and one of the most widely read authors of the late nineteenth century. Born in Edinburgh into a family of lighthouse engineers, Stevenson was expected to follow the family profession but turned instead toward literature, despite chronic ill health that shaped much of his life and travel. He studied law, wrote essays and travel sketches, and developed a literary voice marked by clarity, movement, atmosphere, and a strong sense of moral and imaginative adventure.Stevenson achieved lasting fame with works that range across adventure fiction, Gothic horror, historical romance, children's literature, poetry, and personal essays. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child's Garden of Verses, The Master of Ballantrae, and Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes. He had a gift for creating stories that are both immediately readable and morally resonant, combining suspense, vivid setting, memorable characters, and deeper questions about courage, loyalty, identity, guilt, and the divided nature of the self.In his later years, Stevenson traveled widely in search of better health, eventually settling in Samoa, where he became involved in local political concerns and was known affectionately as Tusitala, "teller of tales." His influence extends across popular fiction and literary fiction alike: pirate stories, adventure novels, psychological horror, and tales of moral doubling all owe something to his example. More than a century after his death, Stevenson remains a central figure in English-language literature, read by children and adults for his storytelling power, stylistic elegance, and ability to turn adventure and terror into lasting myth.