Jamie Fraser is lying on the battlefield of Culloden, where he rises wounded, to face execution or imprisonment. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage.įor twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets.
She currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.ĭiana Gabaldon is the author of the bestselling Outlander series. Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. 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. 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. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.īrianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. 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. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.
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. but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. The past may seem the safest place to be. Audiobook Length: 27 hours and 30 minutes
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