Book description
In the wake of a devastating fire in the mountains of North Carolina,
Highlander Jamie Fraser and his English wife find themselves homeless
and without family, in the midst of the gathering storm of revolution.
And thanks to his time-travelling wife's information, he knows what the
coming spring of 1778 will bring. But then Jamie's illegitimate son,
William, arrives in North Carolina, a young officer in King George's
army. Jamie has sworn two things to himself: his son will never know his
true paternity - and he himself will never face his son across the
barrel of a gun. Between the mountains of North Carolina and those of
the Scottish highlands lie blockades and battlefields, storm and
shipwreck, privateers and politics. The one thing that sustains the
Frasers in their struggle is the hope that their family has reached
safety in the future. They have. The Frasers' daughter and her family
have returned safely through the standing stones that guard the passage
through time, and to Scotland. But something mysterious looms over their
new home. Something whose secret may draw them back to what they fled
from... Diana Gabaldon is the internationally bestselling author of
many historical novels including CROSS STITCH, DRAGONFLY IN AMBER,
VOYAGER, DRUMS OF AUTUMN, THE FIERY CROSS and A BREATH OF SNOW AND
ASHES. She lives with her family in Scottsdale, Arizona.
