Suddenly the proceedings are disrupted, as another prisoner makes a break for it–and Jamie, moved by the death of his friend, impulsively helps the man, a pirate named Stephen Bonnet, to escape a decision that will have long-reaching and unforeseen effects.ĭRUMS OF AUTUMN is the fourth book in the OUTLANDER series, following VOYAGER.
One of Jamie’s old companions from his days in Ardsmuir prison is being hanged for theft, and Jamie has come to lend what support he can. I was morbidly aware of necks at the moment…”ĭRUMS OF AUTUMN opens with a hanging. I wiped my face for the tenth time in as many minutes and lifted the heavy coil of my hair, hoping for a cooling breeze upon my neck. My shift was soaked through, and the cotton bodice clung between my breasts. The best places were on the seawall, where the air moved here below, it was like being roasted alive. The beating echoed in the pit of my stomach, as though I too were hollow… it was a hot day, even for Charleston in June.
But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past - or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong.“I heard the drums long before they came in sight. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she risks her own future to try to change history - and to save their lives. Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. But Claire had left someone behind in her own time - their daughter Brianna. Two decades later, Claire travelled back again to reunite with Jamie, this time in frontier America.
Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for her became legend - a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. How far will a woman travel to find a father, a lover a destiny? Across seas, across time across the grave itself. THE FOURTH NOVEL IN THE BESTSELLING OUTLANDER SERIES.
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