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A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldons epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genres most popular and beloved authors.
Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and hed rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Frasers time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price wont include Jamies life or happiness — not if she has anything to say.
Claires grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Briannas parents history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.
Synopsis
A new Outlander novel — the seventh — from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldons epic Outlander saga — a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genres most popular and beloved authors.
Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and hed rather die than face his illegitimate son — a young lieutenant in the British Army — across the barrel of a gun. Frasers time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price wont include Jamies life or happiness — not if she has anything to say.
Claires grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Briannas parents history — a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.
About the Author
Diana Gabaldon is The New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels — Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes — as well as the bestselling series featuring Lord John Grey, a character she introduced in Voyager and one work of non-fiction, The Outlandish Companion. Winner of a 2006 Quill Award for A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Gabaldon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Table of Contents
ProloguePART ONE
A Troubling of the Waters
1. Sometimes They’re Really Dead
2. And Sometimes They Aren’t
3. Life for Life
4. Not Yet Awhile
5. Morality for Time-Travelers
PART TWO
Blood, Sweat, and Pickles
6. Long Island
7. An Uncertain Future
8. Spring Thaw
9. A Knife That Knows My Hand
10. Fireship
11. Transverse Lie
12. Enough
13. Unrest
14. Delicate Matters
15. The Black Chamber
16. Unarmed Conflict
17. Wee Demons
18. Pulling Teeth
19. Ae Fond Kiss
20. I REGRET . . .
21. The Minister’s Cat
22. Flutterby
PART THREE
Privateer
23. Correspondence from the Front
24. Joyeux Nöel
25. The Bosom of the Deep
26. Stag at Bay
27. Tunnel Tigers
28. Hilltops
29. Conversation with a Headmaster
30. Ships That Pass in the Night
31. A Guided Tour through the Chambers of the Heart
PART FOUR
Conjunction
32. A Flurry of Suspicion
33. The Plot Thickens
34. Psalms, 30
35. Ticonderoga
36. The Great Dismal
37. Purgatory
38. Plain Speech
39. A Matter of Conscience
40. The Blessing of Bride and of Michael
41. Shelter from the Storm
PART FIVE
To the Precipice
42. Crossroad
43. Countdown
44. Friends
45. Three arrows
46. Ley Lines
47. High Places
48. Henry
49. Reservations
50. Exodus
51. The British Are Coming
52. Conflagration
53. Mount independence
54. Return of the native
55. Retreat
56. While still alive
57. The Deserter Game
58. Independence Day
59. Battle of Bennington
60. Deserter Game, round II
61. No Better Companion Than the Rifle
62. One Just Man
63. Separated Forever From My Friends and Kin
64. A Gentleman Caller
65. Hat Trick
66. Deathbed
67. Greasier Than Grease
68. Despoiler
69. Terms of Surrender
70. Sanctuary
PART SIX
Coming Home
71. A State of Conflict
72. The Feast of All Saints
73. One Ewe Lamb Returns to the Fold
74. Twenty—Twenty
75. Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
76. By the Wind Grieved
77. Memorarae
78. Old Debts
79. The Cave
80. Oenomancy
81. Purgatory II
82. Dispositions
83. Counting Sheep
84. The Right of It
PART SEVEN
Reap the Whirlwind
85. Son of a Witch
86. Valley Forge
87. Severance and Reunion
88. Rather Messy
89. Ink- stained Wretch
90. Armed With Diamonds and with Steel
91. Footsteps
92. Independence Day, II
93. A Series of Short, Sharp Shocks
94. The Paths of Death
95. Numbness
96. firefly
97. Nexus
98. Mischianza
99. A Butterfly in a Butcher’s Yard
100. Lady in Waiting
101. Redivivus
102. Bred in the Bone
103. The Hour of the Wolf
Author’s Notes