Still, a Highlander is born to risk - and so is a time-traveler. « lessĬast ashore in the American colonies, the Frasers are faced with a bleak choice: return to a Scotland fallen into famine and poverty, or seize the risky chance of a new life in the New World - menaced by Claire's certain knowledge of the coming Revolution. or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history. Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the circle of stones and a terrifying leap into the unknown. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century - their daughter, Brianna.
Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in the American colonies. more » nbsp ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became a legend - a tale of tragic passion that&. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past-or the grave. However, when Roger and Brianna search for proof that Brianna’s parents reunited in the 18th century, a shocking discovery makes them both consider following in Claire’s footsteps.It began at an ancient Scottish stone circle. But as they grow closer, the young couple realize they have very different ideas about the future of their relationship. Meanwhile, in the 20th century, things heat up between Claire and Jamie’s daughter, Brianna Randall and Roger Wakefield, the historian who helped search for Jamie in the past.
Along the way, the Frasers cross paths with notorious pirate and smuggler Stephen Bonnet in a fateful meeting that will come back to haunt the Fraser family. As Claire and Jamie build their life together in the rough and dangerous backcountry of North Carolina, they must negotiate a tenuous loyalty to the current British ruling class, despite Claire’s knowledge of the bloody rebellion to come. Book Four finds the Frasers in North Carolina, in a place called Fraser’s Ridge at the cusp of the American Revolution.
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