"John Burnet of Barns: A Romance" by John Buchan is a novel published in 1898. Written as an autobiography, it follows young John Burnet in seventeenth-century Scotland as he navigates friendship, scholarship, and romance with his neighbor Marjory Veitch. When his treacherous cousin Gilbert falsely denounces him as a traitor, John loses his lands and becomes a hunted outlaw in the Scottish Borders. He must fight to clear his name, rescue Marjory from Gilbert's schemes, and reclaim his rightful inheritance. (This is an automatically generated summary.)