An Echo in the Bone

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Doubleday Canada, Sep 22, 2009 - Fiction - 848 pages
The seventh Outlander novel from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon.

Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British Army—across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness—not if she has anything to say.

Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history—a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.
 

Contents

SOMETIMES THEYRE REALLY DEAD
3
AND SOMETIMES THEY ARENT
18
LIFE FOR LIFE
31
NOT YET AWHILE
36
MORALITY FOR TIMETRAVELERS
46
PART TWO Blood Sweat and Pickles
55
LONG ISLAND
57
AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE
76
COUNTDOWN
437
FRIENDS
441
THREE ARROWS
447
LEY LINES
451
HIGH PLACES
461
HENRY
467
RESERVATIONS
470
EXODUS
472

SPRING THAW
81
A KNIFE THAT KNOWS MY HAND
96
FIRESHIP
99
TRANSVERSE LIE
106
ENOUGH
122
UNREST
124
DELICATE MATTERS
127
THE BLACK CHAMBER
133
UNARMED CONFLICT
142
WEE DEMONS
154
PULLING TEETH
163
AE FOND KISS
183
REGRET
199
THE MINISTERS CAT
213
FLUTTERBY
232
PART THREE Privateer
235
CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE FRONT
237
JOYEUX NÖEL
241
THE BOSOM OF THE DEEP
254
STAG AT BAY
259
TUNNEL TIGERS
272
HILLTOPS
276
CONVERSATION WITH A HEADMASTER
280
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT
284
A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE CHAMBERS OF THE HEART
302
PART FOUR Conjunction
339
A FLURRY OF SUSPICION
341
THE PLOT THICKENS
346
PSALMS 30
351
TICONDEROGA
363
THE GREAT DISMAL
369
PURGATORY
379
PLAIN SPEECH 398 369
398
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE
404
THE BLESSING OF BRIDE AND OF MICHAEL
413
SHELTER FROM THE STORM
420
PART FIVE To the Precipice
431
CROSSROAD
433
THE BRITISH ARE COMING 52 CONFLAGRATION
479
MOUNT INDEPENDENCE
489
RETURN OF THE NATIVE
491
RETREAT
493
WHILE STILL ALIVE
495
THE DESERTER GAME
505
INDEPENDENCE DAY
514
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON
522
DESERTER GAME ROUND II
527
ONE JUST MAN
543
A GENTLEMAN CALLER
564
A STATE OF CONFLICT
617
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI
654
MEMORARAE
665
PURGATORY II
694
PART SEVEN Reap the Whirlwind
713
SON OF A WITCH
715
VALLEY FORGE
726
SEVERANCE AND REUNION
738
RATHER MESSY
748
INKSTAINED WRETCH
754
ARMED WITH DIAMONDS AND WITH STEEL
761
FOOTSTEPS
764
INDEPENDENCE DAY II
766
A SERIES OF SHORT SHARP SHOCKS
768
THE PATHS OF DEATH
773
NUMBNESS
776
FIREFLY
784
NEXUS
786
MISCHIANZA
793
A BUTTERFLY IN A BUTCHERS YARD
797
LADY IN WAITING
798
REDIVIVUS 802
802
BRED IN THE BONE
809
THE HOUR OF THE WOLF
812
Authors Notes
817
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Diana Gabaldon is The New York Times and Globe and Mail bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels — Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes — as well as the bestselling series featuring Lord John Grey, a character she introduced in Voyager and one work of non-fiction, The Outlandish Companion. Winner of a 2006 Quill Award for A Breath of Snow and Ashes, Gabaldon lives in Scottsdale, Arizona.

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