Catriona (additionally known as David Balfour) is an 1893 novel written by Robert Louis Stevenson as a sequel to his earlier novel Kidnapped (1886). It was first published inside the magazine Atalanta from December 1892 to September 1893. The novel continues the tale of the critical individual in Kidnapped, David Balfour.The e-book starts offevolved exactly in which Kidnapped ends, at 2 pm on 25 August 1751, outdoor the British Linen Company in Edinburgh, Scotland.

The first a part of the e book recounts the tries of the hero, David Balfour, to benefit justice for James Stewart (James of the Glens), who has been arrested and charged with complicity inside the Appin Murder. David makes a assertion to a lawyer and is going on to satisfy William Grant of Prestongrange, the Lord Advocate of Scotland, to press the case for James' innocence. However, his attempts fail, as after being reunited with Alan Breck he's another time kidnapped, and limited at the Bass Rock, an island within the Firth of Forth, till the trial is over, and James is condemned to loss of life.