Bone Memory

Jamie Fraser, a former Jacobite and rebel, knows the American rebellion brings three certainties.

The Americans will win, but fighting on the winning side is no guarantee of survival. He would rather die than face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—with a weapon in his hand. Claire also knows the Americans will win, but she has no idea at what cost.

Meanwhile, in the relative peace of the twentieth century, their daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have settled into the old Scottish house where her parents' drama unfolded two centuries earlier. Here, they find Claire's letters. The fragile pages reveal her love for Jamie. The future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately linked to the war in the American colonies.