After coming into his fortune and evading his uncle’s schemes, young gentleman David Balfour continues his adventures in 18th century Scotland, helping a politically unwelcome friend escape into France, avoiding the hangman himself, finding his place as a gentleman in Edinburgh society, and falling in love with the daughter of a notorious Macgregor clansman.

After his parents die, a young Scottish man travels to see his only remaining relative, expecting to be welcomed, but instead finds his life and liberty in grave danger.

The relationship of two noble brothers is blighted by hostility and vengeance in Jacobite Scotland.