Diana Gabaldon · 1997 · overland

The New World. Jamie and Claire come ashore with nothing and go looking for somewhere to put down roots, and find it in the North Carolina mountains. Two hundred years away, Brianna reads a newspaper notice of her parents' deaths in a fire and goes through the stones after them - and Roger goes after her.

1. 1
   Charleston

   Ashore in the colonies, penniless but for a handful of gemstones, and already entangled with Stephen Bonnet - a condemned man Jamie helps to escape out of pity, and will regret for the rest of the saga.

2. 2
   Wilmington

   North to Wilmington and dinner with Governor Tryon, who offers Jamie a land grant in the mountains: thousands of acres for nothing, on terms that would make him the Crown's man in a colony about to revolt.

3. 3
   River Run

   Up the Cape Fear to Cross Creek and River Run, the plantation of Jamie's aunt Jocasta - and on the river Bonnet finds them again and takes the gems and Claire's wedding ring.

4. 4
   Fraser's Ridge

   High in the western mountains they take the grant and build one cabin, and then a settlement: Fraser's Ridge, filling with Highland emigrants who lost at Culloden and came here instead.

5. 5
   Boston

   1969. Brianna finds a Wilmington newspaper notice: her mother and father died in a fire at Fraser's Ridge. She tells nobody and books a flight.

6. 6
   Inverness

   Where her mother went through, and where Roger realises she has gone after them alone.

7. 7
   Craigh na Dun

   The stones take her back to 1769 and set her down in Scotland, with an ocean still between her and her parents.

8. 8
   Wilmington

   She crosses to the colonies and lands at Wilmington, and the man who offers her passage upriver is Stephen Bonnet. Roger, following her, is beaten and sold to the Iroquois for a crime he did not commit.

9. 9
   Fraser's Ridge

   Brianna meets her father for the first time at twenty-three - and the fire in the newspaper has not happened yet.

10. 10
    The Mohawk Village

    North into Iroquois country to buy Roger back, five hundred miles from the Ridge, with a family being made and unmade along the way.

11. 11
    Fraser's Ridge

    Home, all of them, and four generations under one roof in a country that has not been born yet.