An Echo in the Bone

Paperback, 864 pages

English language

Published March 25, 2010 by Bantam Books.

ISBN:
9780385342469

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Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated 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 …

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Subjects

  • Jamie Fraser (Fictitious character)
  • Scottish Americans
  • Claire Randall (Fictitious character)
  • History
  • Time travel
  • Fiction

Places

  • North Carolina
  • Highlands (Scotland)