An Echo in the Bone: A Novel (Outlander)

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.


From the Hardcover edition.