About this book
In 1751, following his father's death, seventeen-year-old David Balfour sets out for the ominous House of Shaws to meet his estranged uncle, Ebenezer. What begins as a simple quest for family and fortune swiftly turns into a nightmare of betrayal. David is kidnapped and sold into servitude aboard the brig Covenant. His fate changes when he forms an unlikely alliance with Alan Breck Stewart, a flamboyant Jacobite rebel with a price on his head. After a shipwreck strands David on a remote isle, he reunites with Alan, only to be falsely implicated in a political assassination. The two must then embark on a perilous flight through the heather, evading British soldiers while navigating the treacherous landscape of clan loyalties, all as David seeks to finally reclaim his stolen birthright.
