Diana Gabaldon · 2001 · overland

The years before the war. Jamie is called to raise a militia for the Governor and put down the Regulators - fighting for a king he knows he must shortly betray, alongside a daughter and son-in-law who have read how it ends. It closes at Alamance, where the shooting starts five years early.

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   Fraser's Ridge

   A wedding, a christening and a muster. Life on the Ridge in the last quiet years, while the colony below begins to boil.

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   Mount Helicon

   The Gathering, October 1770: Highlanders from across the colony come together for weddings, christenings and the fiery cross, and Jamie calls his men to him in the old way, for a Crown he does not believe in.

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   Alamance

   May 1771. The Regulators against the Governor's militia, and the first blood of the Revolution spilled five years before anybody calls it that. Jamie fights for the Crown; Roger is hanged from a tree and cut down not quite dead.

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   Fraser's Ridge

   Home, with a son-in-law who cannot speak and a country that has just shown everyone what is coming.