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 heíd 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 wonít include Jamieís 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 Claireís daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the drama of Briannaís parentsí story comes to life through Claireís letters

 The pages reveal Claireís 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 Claireís fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonialAmerica.