The stake was, though-a stark reminder of the price of crime. She looked pale, he thought, and maneuvered himself slightly so as to block her view of the men and the brown flood of high tide, though since it was high, the corpse tied to its stake was naturally not visible.
MacKenzie glance quickly at the harbor, then away. Seen it many a time with deer carcasses.” Them gristly bits what holds the head on, they dry out in the sun. “No, he’s good for another day-two, maybe. “De ally-gator don’ take him, de water will.”Ī backwoodsman shifted his tobacco and spat into the water in disagreement. “Na, him be gone for good,” said a ragged man of mixed blood, shaking his head. William heard the speculations from a group of idlers on the quay nearby, wondering whether it would be seen again. 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.The pirate’s head had disappeared. 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. 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. 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. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though-not if she has anything to say about it. 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.Ĭlaire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. 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. Diana Gabaldon’s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga.
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