Diana Gabaldon · 2005 · survival

The Revolution arrives. Claire's skill as a healer curdles into suspicion of witchcraft and murder, Jamie is caught between the oath he swore the Crown and the war his daughter says is coming, and somewhere ahead of them is a newspaper notice with a date on it and their house burning.

1. 1
   Fraser's Ridge

   The Ridge, and a printed notice from the future that says the Frasers will die in a fire here in January 1776.

2. 2
   River Run

   Roger takes Brianna and Jemmy down to Jocasta's while he goes off to be made a minister.

3. 3
   Edenton

   Roger's ordination, and about the last quiet thing that happens to anybody.

4. 4
   Wilmington

   Claire is taken for the murder of Malva Christie, and the road to her trial runs through a crowd throwing stones at her.

5. 5
   Brunswick

   Where Richard Brown's men tie Jamie up in a boat shed and take Claire on without him.

6. 6
   New Bern

   Claire in the sheriff's custody at the colonial capital, waiting on a trial that a war is about to make irrelevant.

7. 7
   Fraser's Ridge

   Home, and the fire - the one from the newspaper, on the wrong date, and not at all the way anyone read it.