After a passionate reunion, they're soon on the run again from the English-and it's an eventful journey.
Once their daughter is grown, Claire traces Jamie's fate through historical documents, realizes he survived Culloden, and steps back through the circle for the third and last time-to join him in 18th-century Scotland, 20 years after they parted. Meanwhile, Claire Randall, the love of Jamie's life-whom he had sent back through a charmed circle of stones to the safety of her passionless but companionable 20th-century marriage just before the battle began-is raising her and Jamie's daughter and working as a doctor in postwar England.
There, he goes into hiding for several years, then turns himself in to the English to protect his near-starving dependents-and winds up in prison. Our hero, gallant Highland laird Jamie Fraser, survives the battle and makes his way to a cave near his estate. The story opens in 1746, on the battlefield of Culloden, where Scotland's dream of winning independence from England has just been brutally crushed. Unlike its predecessors, however, Gabaldon's latest relies more on genre clichÇs than on history for its drama. The third (Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber) in a time-travel trilogy that again creates a vivid sense of daily life in 18th- century Europe.
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