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.