Diana Gabaldon&#8217;s brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in <b>An Echo in the Bone</b>, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.<br><br>Jamie Fraser, former Jacobite and reluctant rebel, is already certain of three things about the American rebellion: The Americans will win, fighting on the side of victory is no guarantee of survival, and he&#8217;d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son&#8211;a young lieutenant in the British army&#8211;across the barrel of a gun.<br><br>Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won&#8217;t include Jamie&#8217;s life or his happiness, though&#8211;not if she has anything to say about it.<br><br>Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire&#8217;s daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Roger MacKenzie, have resettled in a historic Scottish home where, across a chasm of two centuries, the unfolding drama of Brianna&#8217;s parents&#8217; story comes to life through Claire&#8217;s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire&#8217;s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles&#8211;as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire&#8217;s fate but to their own. Because the future of the MacKenzie family in the Highlands is mysteriously, irrevocably, and intimately entwined with life and death in war-torn colonial America.<br><br>With stunning cameos of historical characters from Benedict Arnold to Benjamin Franklin, An Echo in the Bone is a soaring masterpiece of imagination, insight, character, and adventure&#8211;a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.