#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Diana Gabaldon returns with the
"vast and sweeping" (The Washington Post) new novel in the epic
Outlander series.
War leaves nobody alone. 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.
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. 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.
But 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 knows that loyalties among his
tenants are split and it won't be long before 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 coming to terms with the
mysteries of his identity, his future, and the family he's never known.
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.
Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser's Ridge.
Jamie sharpens his sword, while Claire whets her surgeon's blade: It is
a time for steel.
