Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But fighting for the eventual winner is no guarantee of safety. And worse still, the possibility of pointing a weapon at his own son--a young officer in the British army--haunts Jamie's every thought.

In the sixth installment of Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander series, 20th century time traveler Claire Fraser reveals some unsettling news to her 18th century husband, Jamie, on the eve of the American Revolutionary War. Slated to die according to a 1776 obituary, Jamie attempts to change his fate. However, many of the Frasers' friends are divided on opposite sides of the war, putting Jamie's life in perpetual danger.

"Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser's Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the...