Outlander (07) echo in the bone

Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. In An Echo in the Bone; the seventh volume; Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife; Claire Randall. Jamie Fraser; former Jacobite and reluctant rebel; is already certain of three things about the American rebellion The Americans will win; fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival; and he'd rather die than have to face his illegitimate son-a young lieutenant in the British army-across the barrel of a gun. Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win; too; but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won't include Jamie's life or his happiness; though-not if she has anything to say about it. Meanwhile; in the relative safety of the twentieth century; Jamie and Claire's daughter; Brianna; and her husband; Roger MacKenzie; have resettled in a historic Scottish home where; across a chasm of two centuries; the unfolding drama of Brianna's parents' story comes to life through Claire's letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire's love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas; where they encounter privateers and ocean battles-as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire's fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously; irrevocably; and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America. With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin; An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination; insight; character; and adventure-a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.