His erstwhile father, Lord John Grey, has reconciliations to make and dangers to meet on his son’s behalf and on his own, and far to the north, Young Ian Murray fights his own battle between past and future, and the two women he’s loved. Not so far away, young William Ransom is coming to terms with the mysteries of his identity, his future, and the family he’s never known. 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 that loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long before 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. Now it’s 1779, and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children, and are rebuilding their home on Fraser’s Ridge-a fortress that may shelter them against the winds of war as well as weather.īut tensions in the Colonies are great: Battles rage from New York to Georgia and, even in the mountains of the backcountry, feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle.

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Neither the past, the present, nor the future offers true safety, and the only refuge is what you can protect: your family, your friends, your home. Diana Gabaldon returns with the “vast and sweeping” ( The Washington Post) new novel in the epic Outlander series.

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