#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Diana Gabaldon returns with the vast and sweeping” (The
Washington Post) newest 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.
