#1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series.
The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .
Jamie
Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in
1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the
American Revolution threatens to do the same.
It is 1779 and
Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her
husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Having the family
together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.
Yet even
in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt.
Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to
boil Hell’s teakettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split
and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.
Brianna
and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their
escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they
question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease,
starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their
family.
Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to
terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his
own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet .
. . on his son’s behalf, and his own.
Meanwhile, the
Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the
family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever
before.
