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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone [1] is the ninth novel in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon . It was published on November 23, 2021.

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The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .

Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, 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 effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep.

Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s—among them disease, starvation, and an impending war—was indeed the safer choice for their family.

Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true father’s identity—and thus his own—and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his son’s behalf, and his own.

Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Fraser’s Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before. [2]

  • Gabaldon has stated online that the ninth book already feels very different from the others in the series: "It's like I dropped three (so far) rocks into a deep, deep pool and I'm reading the ripples." [3]
  • In reference to the title Gabaldon has explained that it comes from a very old Celtic custom (known in other parts of Europe, too) that made it to the Appalachians of talking to bees. You always tell the bees when someone is born, dies, comes or goes—because if you don’t keep them informed, they’ll fly away. [4]
  • Gabaldon announced on March 27, 2021, that she had finished writing the book. [5]

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From Diana Gabaldon 's official webpage and Facebook

  • "For Murtagh and Ian"
  • "In The Dreamtime"
  • "Jamie and Jenny"
  • "Narcolepsy"
  • "You Came Back"
  • "Jamie and Roger"
  • "Mount Josiah"
  • "Moonlight and Howling"
  • "Carpe Diem"
  • "Expedition"
  • "Technicalities"
  • "Inquiries"
  • "Cousin Amaranthus"
  • "A Small Christmas Present"
  • "Hula Hoop"
  • "A Stubborn Mind"
  • "Nobility Problems"
  • "Mantalk II: Memorial Day 2016"
  • "More Important Than Food"
  • "Rising Bread"
  • "Mantalk III:Why We Fight"
  • "Gone Hunting" DailyLines
  • "A Hunting We Will Go" DailyLines
  • "Taking Chances"
  • "Domestic Economy‬"
  • "Root-cellar" DailyLines
  • "What's In The Bag" DailyLines
  • "Blue Wine" DailyLines
  • "A Hint of Ghosts" DailyLines
  • "Dinna Fash" DailyLines

References [ ]

  • ↑ Diana reveals title of Book Nine via Facebook. Accessed 4 July 2016.
  • ↑ Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone – Penguin Random House. Accessed 15 April 2021.
  • ↑ Gabaldon, Diana. "Rank your favorite Outlander books." MSG:  83979.52 . Diana Gabaldon.  Books and Writers Community . Compuserve. Published 20 June 2015. Accessed 1 December 2017. 
  • ↑ Diana Gabaldon Offical Webpage: Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone . Accessed 11 August 2016
  • ↑ Diana Gabaldon Twitter - March 27, 2021.

See also [ ]

  • 1 Jamie Fraser
  • 2 Brianna MacKenzie
  • 3 Ian Fraser Murray

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What happened in Written in my Own Heart's Blood? (Outlander #8)

What happened in Written in my Own Heart’s Blood? (Outlander #8)

Read a quick summary of Written in my Own Heart’s Blood, book #8 in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series. This page is full of spoilers, so beware. If you are wondering what happened in Outlander #8, then you are in the right place! This is a super quick recap. If you crave more details, we suggest…

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Outlander , published by Random House in 1991, is the first in a highly successful romantic novel series written by Diana Gabaldon, a #1 New York Times bestselling author. The series was adapted into a historical drama television series in 2014.

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Told from the perspective of 27-year-old Englishwoman Claire Beauchamp , Outlander begins in 1945 in Inverness, Scotland. Former WWII nurse Claire Beauchamp and her historian husband Frank Randall have returned to Scotland to reconnect after several years of separation due to the war. The couple is trying for a child.

While Claire studies botany in the Scottish Highlands, Frank researches his Scottish ancestors, namely a soldier called Captain Jonathan Randall . On a botany tour, Claire stumbles upon an ancient henge. After seeing a Scottish ritual performed there, Claire returns to the site to study a plant. Upon finding the plant, she hears a strange wail coming from the stones. After touching the stones, Claire is transported back in time to the year 1743, where she finds herself face-to-face with Frank’s ancestor Jonathan “Black Jack” Randall, who is a more sinister character than the historical records let on.

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Randall accuses Claire of being a prostitute and tries to sexually accost her. However, Randall is intercepted by a group of Scottish clansmen, who then kidnap Claire. Claire intervenes in a failed attempt to put the arm back in the socket of one of the clansmen, a man named Jamie. Seeing Claire’s value as a healer, the clansmen take Claire with them to the castle of Scottish laird, or landowner, Colum MacKenzie, of the prominent Scottish MacKenzie clan. Though the other men are rough with her, Claire notices that Jamie is kind and chivalrous.

At dinner the first night at Colum’s castle, Claire notes that Colum’s son Hamish looks more like Colum’s brother Dougal than Colum. Colum appoints Claire as the castle doctor. Though Colum is hospitable to Claire, Claire is aware that Colum suspects her of being an English spy. She knows that she is being kept at the castle against her will. Claire and Jamie’s friendship blossoms as Claire visits him in the stables, under the guise of tending his wounds. At a public hearing, Jamie displays his sense of honor when he volunteers himself to take the corporal punishment of a young girl, Laoghaire.

Instead of identifying herself as a time traveler, Claire tells Colum that she had been on her way to visit relatives in France when she was attacked by Randall. Claire notices that Jamie’s tartan is brown and blue and not the MacKenzie green, signaling that he is from a different clan. After spending more time with Jamie, Claire realizes that Jamie is upper class and well educated, far from an outlaw. Jamie informs her that the English have a ransom out for him for murder and that he is wanted for killing a British soldier who invaded his home. However, Jamie claims that he did not kill the man they say he did. Jamie later also reveals that Randall had raped his sister Jenny. After Claire sees the deep scars on Jamie’s back, Jamie tells Claire of his escape from the English stronghold Fort William after being flogged twice by Randall. The next morning, Claire stumbles across Jamie kissing Laoghaire.

At Castle Leoch, Claire finds satisfaction in her new role as physician. Claire identifies Colum’s ailment as a degenerative disease of the bone and connective tissue called Toulouse-Lautrec syndrome. While listening to folk songs one night at dinner, Claire ascertains that many Scottish Highland stories use the time frame of 200 years, which is the time gap between the time she is in and the era she left. She vows to return to the stones at Craigh na Dun and therefore return to her husband Frank in 1945.

Claire makes friends with an herbalist named Geillis Duncan, who posits that Colum’s son Hamish is actually Jamie’s son. On a trip to the nearby village of Cranesmuir with Geillis and Dougal, Claire witnesses the public punishment of a 12-year-old boy for stealing. Claire and Jamie work to free the boy, strengthening their friendship.

All the residents of Castle Leoch attend The Gathering, an oath-taking in which the men of the MacKenzie clan make their oaths of allegiance to Colum. Claire uses the distractions of this event to escape; however, when she goes to the stable to steal a horse she is intercepted by Jamie. Jamie coolly informs her that Colum has hired guards to watch her, thwarting her plans for escape. Jamie has reasons to hide of his own: He does not want to swear allegiance to Colum and give up his family name. However, the pair are interrupted by three drunk MacKenzie men, who drag them off to the Gathering. When it is time for Jamie to come before Colum, instead of swearing his allegiance, he vows his friendship, allyship, and obedience, but does not take the MacKenzie name. Colum accepts. As Claire leaves the Gathering, she is accosted by a group of drunk MacKenzie men. Dougal saves her from their advances but not without taking a kiss from her for himself. The next week, Dougal announces that he will be taking Jamie and Claire with him to collect rent from tenants through the MacKenzie lands. He says he will take Claire to Fort William to contact her relatives in France. Claire speculates that she can find her way back to the stones of Craigh na Dun from there. On her trip with Dougal, Claire realizes that Dougal is using the façade of collecting MacKenzie rents to raise money for the Jacobite cause, a movement to overthrow the current king of Britain in favor of a monarch who would be more sympathetic to Scottish interests. Jamie grows morose and angry when Dougal uses the beating Jamie bore by Captain Randall as a strategy for fundraising.

At Fort William, Claire is interrogated and then beaten by Captain Randall, who cannot figure out whether Claire is a spy. In seeing Claire’s wounds, Dougal and Randall get into an argument and Dougal takes Claire back with him. Dougal tells Claire that so long as she is an Englishwoman Randall will have the right to capture and interrogate her. He believes that the only solution is for Claire to become a Scotswoman by marrying Jamie. At first Claire refuses, but then she sees an opportunity in using Jamie’s vast knowledge of the Scottish landscape to get back to Craigh na Dun. Before marrying, Jamie tells Claire that his family name is Fraser. The couple wed in the same church Claire marries Frank 200 years in the future.

On the night of their wedding, Jamie, a virgin, sheepishly tells Claire that their marriage is not legal until they consummate it. After hours of talking, the couple begin to engage in an intense sexual affair. Jamie confesses to having wanted Claire for some time and Claire admits that she had been fighting her attraction to Jamie. Jamie tells Claire that making love to her feels like giving her his soul. Jamie tells Claire that their marriage might have saved his life since if he had sworn his oath the Colum at the Gathering, and taken the MacKenzie name, Dougal and Colum might have killed him for his proximity to the MacKenzie inheritance. Jamie maintains that marrying an Englishwoman leaves him little chance of inheriting Castle Leoch.

Jamie and the rest of the MacKenzie clansman fight off an English raid. Jamie gives Claire a dirk, which she drops during the struggle. Claire and the MacKenzie men camp near Loch Ness, where Claire thinks she sees a monster. One of the MacKenzie men, Peter, sees her witness the beast and becomes afraid of Claire, thinking her a witch. Claire meets Jamie’s friend Hugh Munro, who has been collecting information for Jamie about an English deserter Horrocks’s whereabouts. Jamie believes that Horrocks can testify that Jamie did not kill an English officer.

Jamie and Claire are attacked by English deserters while making love one morning. When one of them forces himself on Claire, but Claire stabs and kills him with her hidden dirk. Jamie kills the other. After the attack, Claire and Jamie furiously make love.

A meeting with Horrocks is arranged. Not wanting to worry about him when Jamie is gone, Claire insists on going with Jamie to meet Horrocks, but he refuses, insisting that it is dangerous for her to be seen out in the open. It dawns on Claire that she had been so preoccupied with fighting with Jamie that she had failed to observe her location, mere miles from the hill of Craigh na Dun. Claire sets off in the direction of Craigh na Dun, but her foot slips, plunging her into the loch. She begins to drown. Claire is pulled up from the water by Corporal Hawkins, one of Captain Randall’s minions.

Corporal Hawkins takes Claire to Captain Randall, who grows angry at Claire during questioning and tries to sexually assault her. However, Claire realizes Randall cannot keep his penis erect enough to rape her without her screaming in distress. Claire resolves to stay quiet. Jamie unexpectedly arrives and tricks Randall into freeing Claire with an empty revolver. Upon returning to the group, Claire is given a frosty reception by the MacKenzie clansman, who are still angry with her for putting them in danger. When Claire and Jamie are alone in their chamber, Jamie tells her he must flog her as punishment.

While riding the next day, Jamie reveals to Claire more information about his relationship to Captain Randall and Jamie’s father’s death. Captain Randall had offered to cancel Jamie’s second flogging if Jamie agreed to have sex with Randall. Jamie thinks of his father and decides he could not be sodomized. Consequently, Randall almost beat Jamie to death. Believing Jamie to be dead, Jamie’s father suffers a fatal heart attack. Jamie feels responsible for his father’s death. Later, Jamie admits to wanting to penetrate Claire while beating her. Jamie asks Claire if she will share a bed with him again. He swears to never beat Claire again.

Jamie updates Claire on his meeting with Horrocks. Horrocks told Jamie it was Randall himself who had killed the English officer. Claire suggests the two of them go to abroad to escape. Jamie dreams of returning to his own family property of Lallybroch. Claire feels guilty that while Jamie includes her in his future plans, Claire still intends to escape back into the future. Jamie tells Claire that the Duke of Sandringham, for whom Randall works as a spy, will soon visit Castle Leoch.

Claire and the MacKenzie clan return to Castle Leoch. Jamie asks Dougal for his share of the MacKenzie rents, which he is entitled to as a married man. Jamie leaves he and Claire’s chamber to run an errand. Claire suspects Jamie of having an affair with Laoghaire. The couple fights when Jamie returns. Jamie finally produces a ring and explains that he used the rent money to buy Claire a wedding ring. Jamie admits to wanting Claire so much that he can hardly breathe. He asks her if she wants him too and she agrees that she does. Before making love to her, Jamie warns Claire that he cannot be gentle.

Claire and Jamie find a bushel of dried plants thrown in their bed, which Jamie claims is an ill-wish someone has sent them. While on a walk with Geillis in the foothills, Claire stumbles across an abandoned baby. Geillis instructs Claire to leave the baby, claiming it to be a changeling, or demon. Geillis grows angry at Claire when Claire insists on retrieving the child, calling her a “pig-headed English ass” (697). Jamie finds Claire and confirms that she should leave the child alone, as the child is ill beyond cure and allowing the parents to think that the child is a changeling and not their kin is a way to help them grieve. The duke arrives and Claire finds that she likes his sense of humor.

Claire goes to Geillis’s house, who has offered to help Claire find out who sent her the ill-wish. Once there, Claire finds that Geillis practices magic. Under the guise of helping Claire with the ill-wish, Geillis puts Claire into a trance and tries to extract information from her about her true identity. Geillis is interrupted by her husband Arthur, who barges in on Geillis in a state of undress and leaves the room looking disturbed. Later that night at the Castle Leoch banquet, Arthur drops dead seemingly from a heart attack.

Before Jamie leaves on a trip, Jamie asks Claire not to spend time with Geillis, claiming that she is a witch. Moping around the castle in the wake of Jamie’s departure, Claire runs into Laoghaire, who tells her that Geillis is unwell and has asked Claire to see her. Geillis is puzzled when Claire arrives at her house. Their conversation is interrupted by a loud rumbling sound.

Geillis and Claire are captured by the villagers, who force them to stand trial for witchcraft. Claire suspects that Colum knew about this and did not intervene. Geillis admits to poisoning her husband and carrying Dougal’s child. She claims to have made an alliance with Dougal, a powerful Scotsman, as a form of patriotism. Claire realizes that Geillis is a Jacobite. At the trials, the villagers strip Claire so that her breasts are bare and interrogate her. However, just as she is to be killed, Jamie arrives to save her, having been given word by Alec the stable master that she was in danger.

Jamie asks her if she is a witch. Claire tells Jamie the truth about her background. Jamie makes love to Claire tenderly before solemnly leading her to Craigh na Dun so that she can go home. Instead of telling Jamie she loves him, Claire warns Jamie of the upcoming Jacobite uprising, famine, and downfall of the Highlander clans who follow the uprising. Claire implores Jamie to seek refuge abroad. With hurt in his eyes, Jamie leaves Claire.

Sitting in front of the stones, Claire finds that she cannot leave Jamie and returns to the cottage to find him. She slips into bed beside him, much to his delight upon awakening. Jamie confesses to Claire that it took all his strength not to ask her to stay with him. Jamie tells Claire that they will now go back to his home, Lallybroch. Jamie and Claire arrive at Lallybroch. After a long and complicated misunderstanding between Jamie and his sister Jenny, Jamie discovers that Jenny was not impregnated by Captain Randall and is instead married with a son and a second child on the way to Jamie’s childhood friend Ian.

Jamie admits to Claire that one of the reasons he married her was because he wanted her. Claire laughingly clarifies that he married her for love, and he confirms. Claire challenges Jamie on the difference between love and desire. Jamie counters that he believes them to be very similar. He admits that he had not wanted to reveal that he loved her upon their wedding day because he knew that she was reluctant to marry him and did not want to burden her.

While inspecting the Lallybroch mill, Jamie must hide underwater from a pair of English soldiers. Having lost his swimming drawers, he is forced to re-emerge naked. Widow MacNab asks Jamie to take on her grandson Rabbie as a Lallybroch stable boy so that Rabbie may escape the cruel beatings of his father MacNab. Jamie agrees. Although MacNab initially refuses to give up Rabbie, he changes his mind after a private, clearly jarring conversation with Jamie, from which he comes back grey-faced and doubled-over. When Claire asks Jamie how he convinced MacNab to release the boy, Jamie admits to having physically coerced MacNab.

After dinner one evening, Jamie reminiscences about the humor and fairness of his father’s beatings. He grows morose after the storytelling, admitting his guilt over his father’s death. Jenny interjects that she believes it was her fault that their father died. She confesses that when Randall tried to rape her, she teased him for his inability to keep an erection. In retaliation, Randall knocked her unconscious and when she awoke Jamie had been captured. Jamie comforts her that neither of them were responsible for their father’s death.

On another evening, Jenny describes the erotic nature of pregnancy then walks off for some private time with Ian, leaving her son small Jamie sleeping by the fire with Claire and Jamie. Claire asks Jamie if it is true what Jenny claimed, that men penetrate women in order to get back to the prenatal womb. Jamie confirms that there is some pleasure in trying to go back to this comfort of the fetal state. He reaches for her, initiating sex, dismissing the presence of the boy by saying that he must learn his husband duties some way or another.

Claire realizes that Jamie was born to be master of Lallybroch. When Jamie asks Claire what she was born to do, Claire responds that she was born for Jamie. Claire tells Jamie that she is afraid that if she tells him she loves him she will be unable to stop. She tells him she loves him.

After a few days, Jamie tells Claire that there are English soldiers within 20 miles, and they must leave Lallybroch. However, their departure is postponed when Jenny goes into labor. Her delivery of her daughter Margaret is complicated, and Claire must turn the child inside Jenny’s womb. Ian fears that Jenny will die; however, mother and child both survive. Claire observes Jamie’s competency with his newborn niece. Jamie tells Claire she is glad she is barren because he could not stand seeing her in pain.

Outside of Lallybroch, Ian and Jamie are attacked by the English Watch and Jamie is kidnapped. Jenny and Claire depart in search of Jamie. They capture an English soldier, who tells them that Jamie is dead, but Jenny does not believe them. Murtagh finds Jenny and Claire, taking Jenny’s place in their hunt for Jamie since Jenny must return home and care for her child. Murtagh informs Jenny and Claire that it was widow MacNab that told the English about Jamie’s location.

After Murtagh and Claire befriend a band of gypsies, they get word from them as to Jamie’s whereabouts. However, to Claire’s dismay, it is Dougal the gypsies have found and not Jamie. Dougal informs Claire that Jamie is being held at the notoriously dangerous Wentworth Prison and is to be hanged in a matter of days. When Claire implores Dougal to help her set Jamie free, Dougal refuses to put himself and the MacKenzie men he rode with in danger. Murtagh arrives, having commandeered some of Dougal’s money and men. Dougal confesses to siring Hamish and to being infatuated with Claire. Claire bargains with Dougal to let her talk to his men, and if they leave of their own accord, he will have no objection. If she does not succeed, then she will give Dougal back his money and men. Dougal agrees. Five of Dougal’s men willingly help Claire save Jamie. Dougal passes on a cryptic message from Geillis to Claire that Claire interprets to mean that Geillis time traveled from 1967 to 1743 and that she believes in Claire and Jamie’s love.

After tricking Sir Fletcher Gordon, the Wentworth Prison overseer, to allow her on prison grounds, Claire finally finds Jamie being tortured by Captain Randall in the prison basement. Jamie’s hand is severely mangled. When Captain Randall threatens to kill Claire, Jamie offers him his body if Randall will lead Claire safely out of the prison. Captain Randall agrees. Claire tells Randall that she is a witch and that she knows the day of his death. Instead of leading Claire to safety, Randall pushes Claire into a ditch of dead bodies before she can reveal his death date.

Claire is attacked by a wolf and rescued by a nearby resident, Sir Marcus MacRannoch. After Murtagh arrives to collect Claire, he recognizes Sir Marcus as one of Ellen MacKenzie’s, Jamie’s mother, suitors, who gave her the string of pearls that Claire now owns. Murtagh concocts a plan to use Sir Marcus’s cattle as a distraction to free Jamie. Unleashing the cattle on Wentworth grounds, Sir Marcus then goes to Sir Gordon and demands to know why he is harboring stolen property on the lands. In the midst of this argument, the Murtagh and the MacKenzie men free Jamie. Randall is trampled to death by cattle.

Though Jamie’s body begins to heal, first at Sir Marcus’s house, then at his uncle’s abbey in France, his mind does not, and he is plagued with memories of his sexual torture by Randall. What pains Jamie most is that there were times during the torture that he was sexually aroused by Randall. Jamie feels as if Randall has stolen his soul. Jamie eventually concludes that he can no longer be Claire’s husband since her touch brings to mind the memory of Randall. He implores her to return to the year 1945. However, Claire refuses and uses witchcraft to call back Randall’s ghost from the dead so Jamie can fight him. The next day, Jamie’s fever breaks. Claire and Jamie make love for the first time since Jamie’s rape and torture.

Claire confesses her past to Anselm, a Franciscan monk who is a guest at the abbey. Anselm advises her to feel grateful for her successful marriage to Jamie and to use her insights into the future as a tool.

Jamie surprises Claire by taking her to the healing hot springs outside of the abbey. Claire decides that the two of them will seek refuge in Rome when they leave the abbey. The couple make love in the hot springs, and afterwards Claire tells Jamie that she is carrying his child.

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Outlander Books in Order: What Comes Next?

With Outlander Season 5 wrapping up, we break down everything you need to know about the Outlander books, whether you're looking to dive in or you want hints on the future of the show.

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If you’re a fan of the Outlander TV series but have never read the Outlander book series on which the Starz drama is faithfully based, you might have some questions about what comes next in the Outlander story. Right now, the TV show is just wrapping up its fifth season , which follows the plot of the fifth book in the series, The Fiery Cross . Outlander Season 6 , on which the writers are already hard at work, will follow the plot of the sixth book in the series, titled A Breath of Snow and Ashes . Scroll down to that book’s section to find out more about the plot.

Currently, there are eight main published works in Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander series with more on the way. They are as follows: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone , and Written in My Own Heart’s Blood. A ninth book has already been announced; it is titled Go Tell the Bees That I Am

Gone , which I personally think is a beautiful title. Gabaldon plans to write ten books in total for the Outlander book series.

(Note: this article focuses on the main books in the Outlander series, which follow the story of Claire and Jamie Fraser. Gabaldon has also written a series of novels centered around Lord John Grey, as well as other short stories and a graphic novel in this universe.)

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Here’s a break down of the plot of each book…

Book 1: Outlander (1991)

Note: This book was published as Cross Stitch in the UK.

Here is the official synopsis…

“Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.

Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.”

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Book 2: Dragonfly in Amber (1992)

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“For twenty years, Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the mysteries of Scotland’s mist-shrouded Highlands.   Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as shocking as the events that gave it birth: the secret of an ancient circle of standing stones, the secret of a love that transcends centuries, and the truth of a man named Jamie Fraser—a Highland warrior whose gallantry once drew the young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his.   Claire’s spellbinding journey continues through the intrigue-ridden French court and the menace of Jacobite plots, to the Highlands of Scotland, through war and death in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves.”

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Book 3: Voyager (1993)

“Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her . . . and her body still cries out for him in her dreams.

Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and the pain awaiting her . . . the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland . . . and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite—or forever doom—her timeless love.”

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Book 4: Drums of Autumn (1996)

“It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna….

Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history…and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past…or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong….”

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Book 5: The Fiery Cross (2001)

“The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy—a time-traveler’s certain knowledge.

Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time—1743—when the only English in Scotland were the officers and men of King George’s army.

Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only anchor—Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead—or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes….

Grand, sweeping, utterly unforgettable,  The Fiery Cross  is riveting entertainment, a vibrant tapestry of history and human drama.”

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Book 6: A Breath of Snow and Ashes (2005)

“The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest.

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With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence—with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from  The Wilmington Gazette , dated 1776, which reports Jamie’s death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.”

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Book 7: An Echo in the Bone (2009)

“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’d rather die than have to face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British army—across the barrel of a gun.

Claire Randall knows that the Americans will win, too, but not what the ultimate price may be. That price won’t include Jamie’s life or his happiness, though—not if she has anything to say about it.

Meanwhile, in the relative safety of the twentieth century, Jamie and Claire’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’s parents’ story comes to life through Claire’s letters. The fragile pages reveal Claire’s love for battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and their flight from North Carolina to the high seas, where they encounter privateers and ocean battles—as Brianna and Roger search for clues not only to Claire’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.

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—a novel that echoes in the mind long after the last page is turned.”

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Book 8: Written in My Own Heart’s Blood (2014)

“In her now classic novel  Outlander,  Diana Gabaldon told the story of Claire Randall, an English ex-combat nurse who walks through a stone circle in the Scottish Highlands in 1946, and disappears . . . into 1743. The story unfolded from there in seven bestselling novels, and CNN has called it “a grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].” Now the story continues in  Written in My Own Heart’s Blood .   1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny, are busy picking up the pieces.   The Frasers can only be thankful that their daughter Brianna and her family are safe in twentieth-century Scotland. Or not. In fact, Brianna is  searching for her own son, who was kidnapped by a man determined to learn her family’s secrets. Her husband, Roger, has ventured into the past in search of the missing boy . . . never suspecting that the object of his quest has not left the present. Now, with Roger out of the way, the kidnapper can focus on his true target: Brianna herself.   Written in My Own Heart’s Blood  is the brilliant next chapter in a masterpiece of the imagination unlike any other.”

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Book 9: Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (not yet published)

Gabaldon is currently working on Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone , but there is yet to be an official publish date. On her website, Gabaldon writes about the book’s title: “Where did the title come from? Talking to your bees is a very old Celtic custom (known in other parts of Europe, too) that made it to the Appalachians. You always tell the bees when someone is born, dies, comes or goes—because if you don’t keep them informed, they’ll fly away.”

You can check out Gabaldon’s website for more teases about the upcoming book, including chapter titles and excerpts.

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The Outlander book series by Diana Gabaldon is the inspiration behind the epic Starz TV show but which novels are the source of which season?

  • The Outlander book series serves as the source material for the popular Starz show, with each season corresponding roughly to one novel.
  • The TV show closely adapts the events and storylines of the books, with minor changes and additions to enhance the visual and storytelling experience.
  • Season 7 of Outlander is split into two parts and will adapt the end of book 6, along with books 7 and 8, while season 8 will primarily focus on book 9 and serve as the series finale.

The Outlander book series is an epic nine-novel story that serves as the source material for the popular Starz show of the same name and, for the most part, the seasons faithfully adapt the books in order. Author Diana Gabaldon wrote the first novel in the series, Outlander , in 1991. The following eight books were released over the next 20 years, with the longest pause between publishing being between book eight, Written in My Own Heart's Blood (2014), and book nine, Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone (2021). The Outlander series also includes spinoff novellas, graphic novels, and audiobooks.

The series received a TV adaptation and the first episode of the series premiered on August 9, 2014, and led to seven more seasons, with season 8 of Outlander on the way . The show, like the novels, follows Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe) a British WWII nurse who is transported back in time to Scotland in 1743. From there, she participates in rebellions, travels the world, and falls in love. Gabaldon is a paid consultant on the series making for a very faithful adaptation, via AZ Central . Each season of Outlander corresponds roughly with one novel , but later seasons draw from multiple books with some novel elements changed for television.

Outlander - Season 1

Claire and Jamie looking at each other intensely in Outlander.

The first season of Outlander follows the first novel very closely. Both begin with Claire and her husband Frank (Tobias Menzies) vacationing in Scotland in 1945. However, in the book, Claire goes through the time stones on May 1, the festival of Beltane , a May Day festival. In the show, Claire time travels on November 1, the festival of Samhain, a date which better coincides with when the series was filmed. Other than that and some smaller character changes, like Rupert and Angus becoming more significant comic relief characters, and added storylines like Tammas the sick child, Outlander season 1 starts and ends where the novel does.

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Season 2 of Outlander follows the second book in the series, Dragonfly in Amber , very closely. Both open on a flash-forward scene, but in the book, the scene takes place far in the future with Claire in 1968. The series makes a wise choice to set that flash-forward in the 1940s, just as Claire steps out of the stones. With an opening intent on foreshadowing the season finale, setting that moment in a never-before-seen time period could be a bit confusing.

Otherwise, season 2 of the show follows the story of the novel. Claire and Jamie (Sam Heughan) arrive in France to infiltrate the Jacobite rebellion and become involved in the strange world of French high society. In the show and the novel, the ending sees Claire stepping through the time travel stones, returning to her time, and leaving Jamie alone to face Culloden.

Voyager - Season 3

Claire and Frank at a party smiling with others in the background in Outlander season 3.

Voyager is the third book in Gabaldon's series and Outlander 's executive producer Ronald D. Moore claims that the third book was the easiest to adapt to the screen , via Radio Times . The show begins just like the book, with Outlander 's long-awaited fight between the Jacobites and the Redcoats, and ends just as the novel does, with Jamie and Claire surviving a shipwreck that washes them upon the shore of the American colony of Georgia. One significant structural change that the show makes to the book is that the show tells Jamie's story through his point of view rather than in the third person, like the novel.

Another major change is that Murtagh (Duncan Lacroix) dies in Dragonfly in Amber at the Battle of Culloden, while in the show, he survives long after. Claire's story in the novel also involves her and her daughter researching Jamie to figure out what happened to him. This doesn't make for particularly interesting television viewing, so there are a few invented storylines for Claire and minor plots taken from other books and spinoffs.

Diana Gabaldon has also written a series of historical mystery novels known as the Lord John series, based on a character from Outlander .

Drums Of Autumn - Season 4

Claire pleading with Jamie in Outlander season 4

Season 4 of Outlander adapts Gabaldon's fourth book in the series, Drums of Autumn . Fans of the novels will be glad to know that season 4 of the show closely mirrors the events in the novel with only some minor differences. Season 4 and Drums of Autumn both pick up where the previous entry left off, with Jamie and Claire in the New World, trying to make a home together after finally being reunited. Their daughter Brianna "Bree" (Sophie Skelton) travels through the stones to be with her mother and finally meets her real father like in the novel.

A significant structural change in the story is that the show focuses on Jamie this season much more than it does Claire. One notable omission from the book is the scene at the end of Drums of Autumn when Bree gives birth to her son with Claire as the midwife and Jamie looking on. It's a meaningful generational moment and the story of the Fraser's reunion loses some of its impact without it. However, both series end with Claire and Jamie helping Bree and Roger (Richard Rankin) reunite and find a home in colonial America.

The Fiery Cross, A Breath Of Snow And Ashes - Season 5

Roger and Brianna holding flowers at their wedding on Outlander

Outlander season 5 is when the TV show begins adapting parts of multiple books over the course of one season. Season 5 primarily uses the fifth book in the series, The Fiery Cross , as a source, but it also includes some pieces of A Breath of Snow and Ashes in its timeline. The TV show starts out much as the novels do, with the Fraser clan looking to make a home and protect their homestead on Fraser's Ridge. Roger attempts to make his father-in-law Jamie respect him, as he knows little about survival in the 18th century.

Unlike the novels, Murtagh has survived, and he is the leader of a group of Regulators that the Governor of North Carolina orders Jamie to hunt down. This leads to Murtagh's heartbreaking death in Outlander , which is actually an improvement from his unceremonious end in the books. Towards the end of the season, Bree and Roger travel back to the 20th century in order to utilize modern medicine to save their daughter Mandy's life. This does happen in the novels but not until A Breath of Snow and Ashes , the sixth book in the series.

A Breath Of Snow And Ashes - Season 6

Jamie at Ardsmuir in a flashback in Outlander season 6

Outlander season 6 only has eight episodes , four less than even the shortest season that came before. This means that while season 6 only adapts material from one novel, A Breath of Snow and Ashes , it doesn't adapt everything, and many storylines are left as cliffhangers. With season 5 encompassing the start of book 6 and season 7 resolving the end, season 6 deals with the middle portion of the sixth novel . The finale of season 6 is key as it separates Claire and Jamie, and sees Claire brought to Wilmington for her murder trial. This is already a departure from the series where she is brought to New Bern.

Jamie and Claire look concerned in Outlander

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A breath of snow and ashes, an echo in the bone, written in my own heart's blood - season 7.

Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser pointing a gun at the screen in Outlander season 7 midseason finale

Season 7 of Outlander has the very difficult duty of adapting the end of book 6, A Breath of Snow and Ashes ; book 7, An Echo in the Bone ; and book 8, Written in My Own Heart's Blood . Premiering on June 16, 2023, season 7 of Outlander is supersized and split into two parts , with episodes 9-16 set to premiere sometime in 2024, via Digital Spy . The first part of season 7 ended with Jamie being injured during the Battle of Saratoga and the Frasers finally returning to Scotland.

The second half of season 7 is set to finish the story from the seventh book An Echo in the Bone and the eighth book Written in My Own Heart's Blood , via TV Guide .

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Caitríona Balfe as Claire Fraser and Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser smiling and holding each other in Outlander season 7 midseason finale

The ninth novel in the Outlander series is Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone , which was released on November 23, 2021. According to the show's executive producer Maril Davis, " Season 8 will be all Book 9 pretty much. We might bring in some stuff that we didn't do in Books 7 and 8. But it will mostly be us doing Book 9 ," via TV Guide . Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone once again sees the Frasers come into contact with the American Revolution. Though Gabaldon intends to write more for the series, via Insider , season 8 of Outlander will be the finale for the TV show.

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About the Book

By Diana Gabaldon

'Outlander,' also known as 'Cross Stitch' in some countries, is a sweeping historical fiction novel by Diana Gabaldon. Published in 1991, it tells the story of Claire Randall, a nurse in World War II who finds herself transported back in time to 18th-century Scotland.

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In the 18th century, Claire is torn between her loyalty to her own time and her growing love for a Scottish warrior named Jamie Fraser. At its heart, ‘ Outlander ‘ is a story about love, loyalty, and the power of the human spirit. 

It is a sweeping epic that spans continents and centuries . Yet, it is also an intimate and deeply personal tale of one woman’s journey through time and her search for meaning and purpose in a world that she is not at all familiar with and that she didn’t choose to join.

Spoiler-Free Summary of Outlander

Warning – This article contains important details and spoilers

‘ Outlander ‘ follows the story of Claire Randall, a former nurse who is on a second honeymoon with her husband in Scotland in 1945. While exploring a mysterious circle of standing stones , Claire is suddenly transported back in time to 1743.

Trapped in a dangerous and unfamiliar world, Claire must navigate the politics and customs of 18th-century Scotland in order to survive. Along the way, she meets a young Scottish warrior named Jamie Fraser, who becomes her protector and confidante as she tries to find a way back to her own time.

One of the central themes of the novel is the idea of fate and destiny. Claire’s journey back in time is not something she chooses but rather something that happens to her. As she struggles to come to terms with her situation, she grapples with the idea that her life may not be at all within her control.

As Claire and Jamie’s relationship deepens, she finds herself torn between her old life and the new one she has found in the past. With danger lurking around every corner, Claire uses her skills and ingenuity to stay alive, even as she begins to realize that her love for her first husband, Frank, may be fading.

Claire is torn between her loyalty to her own time and her growing feelings for Jamie. She knows that she is married and that she has a life waiting for her in the future, but she can’t help but be drawn to Jamie and the Highland way of life.

Throughout the novel, Gabaldon weaves together historical events, political intrigue, and a complex love story to create a rich and engrossing narrative. Her attention to detail and vivid descriptions bring 18th-century Scotland to life, and her characters are complex and utterly captivating.

Full Summary of Outlander

The novel opens in 1945, where we meet Claire and her husband, Frank. They are enjoying a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands after being separated during the war. While exploring the countryside, Claire stumbles upon a circle of standing stones and is inexplicably transported back in time to 1743.

Disoriented and confused, Claire soon finds herself in the midst of a dangerous conflict between Scottish Highlanders and British Redcoats. She is rescued from an attack by a group of Highlanders. 

She’s taken to Castle Leoch, where she meets Colum and Dougal, two leading members of the McKenzie Clan. There, she also meets Jamie Fraser, the second protagonist of the novel and her love interest. Despite being a married woman, Claire is drawn to Jamie and begins to develop feelings for him.

Desperate to return to her own time and her husband, Claire uses her medical knowledge to earn the trust of the Highlanders and becomes embroiled in their struggle for independence. She tries to escape a few times, but as time passes, she becomes more attached to the people there. This includes Geillis Duncan, a woman she learns is another time traveler and with whom she’s almost burnt at the stake. 

Along the way, she and Jamie form a complicated relationship, and she must navigate the dangers of living in a time of political upheaval while also trying to find a way back to the 20th century. She eventually encounters Jonathan Randall, a relative of her husband Frank, by whom she’s kidnapped. Jamie rescues her, and the two solidify their relationship. 

Jamie is later captured by the English, and Jonathan Randall, who has a sadistic attraction to him, tortures and rapes him. Jamie is rescued, and Claire helps him recover his strength. At the end of the novel, Claire reveals that she’s pregnant, complicating her decision to stay in the past or try to return to her first husband and proper time. 

Who are the characters in  Outlander ? 

In addition to Claire and Jamie, the novel features a colorful cast of supporting characters, including the Highland warrior Dougal MacKenzie, the fiery and headstrong Laoghaire MacKenzie, and the mysterious Geillis Duncan. Each character adds something unique to the story, and many are featured throughout multiple books in the series .

What kind of novel is  Outlander ? 

‘ Outlander ‘ is a historical fiction novel written by Diana Gabaldon and published in 1991. The novel is the first in a series of novels that follows Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall throughout the 18th century.

What is the climax of the novel  Outlander ? 

The climax occurs when Claire rescues Jamie from Jonathan Randall after he has been tortured and abused by the English.

Why is  Outlander  so popular?

‘ Outlander ‘ is so popular because of its unique blend of genres (romance, fantasy, and historical fiction) as well as its incredibly realistic depiction of life in the 18th and 20th centuries. The characters in ‘ Outlander ‘  are also complex and multi-dimensional, making them relatable and engaging.

What happens at the end of  Outlander ? 

At the end of ‘ Outlander ,’ Claire rescues Jamie from Frank Randall’s ancestor, Jonathan Randall, and helps him heal from the wounds Randall inflicted upon him. It’s also revealed that Claire is pregnant. 

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About Emma Baldwin

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Introduction:

The Outlander series includes three kinds of stories:

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  • DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
  • DRUMS OF AUTUMN
  • THE FIERY CROSS
  • A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES
  • AN ECHO IN THE BONE
  • WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD
  • GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE
  • Book Ten (As Yet Untitled)

Note that the major novels should be read in order.

2. The Shorter, Less Indescribable Novels that are more or less historical mysteries (though dealing also with battles, eels, and mildly deviant sexual practices). And…

3. The Bulges —These being short(er) pieces that fit somewhere inside the story lines of the novels, much in the nature of squirming prey swallowed by a large snake. These deal frequently—but not exclusively—with secondary characters, are prequels or sequels, and/or fill some lacuna left in the original story lines.

The Big Books of the main series deal with the lives and times of Claire and Jamie Fraser. The shorter novels focus on the adventures of Lord John Grey but intersect with the larger books. ( THE SCOTTISH PRISONER, for example, features both Lord John and Jamie Fraser in a shared story). All of the novellas feature people from the main series, including Jamie and/or Claire on occasion. The description below explains which characters appear in which stories.

Most of the shorter Lord John novels and novellas (so far) fit within a large lacuna left in the middle of VOYAGER in the years between 1756 and 1761. Some of the Bulges also fall in this period; others don’t.

So, for the reader’s convenience, the detailed listing here shows the sequence of the various elements in terms of the storyline. However, it should be noted that the shorter novels and novellas are all designed suchly that they may be read alone, without reference either to each other or to the Big, Enormous Books—should you be in the mood for a light literary snack instead of the nine‐course meal with wine‐pairings and dessert trolley.

The description of each story includes the dates covered in it. The original anthology title and years of publication are also given for each one as applicable.

Chronology of the Outlander Series:

“Virgins” (novella): Set in 1740 in France. In which Jamie Fraser (aged nineteen) and his friend Ian Murray (aged twenty) become young mercenaries. [Originally published in the anthology DANGEROUS WOMEN, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, 2012. Included in SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL. ]

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II.  DRAGONFLY IN AMBER (second major Outlander series novel): It doesn’t start where you think it’s going to. And it doesn’t end how you think it’s going to, either. Just keep reading; it’ll be fine. (1968/1744-46)

“A Fugitive Green” (novella): Set in 1744-45 in Paris, London, and Amsterdam, this is the story of Lord John’s elder brother, Hal (Harold, Earl Melton and Duke of Pardloe), and his (eventual) wife, Minnie—at the time of this story a seventeen-year-old dealer in rare books with a sideline in forgery, blackmail, and burglary. Jamie Fraser also appears in this one. First published in SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL.

III.  VOYAGER (third major novel in the Outlander series): This won an award from EW magazine for “Best Opening Line.” (To save you having to find a copy just to read the opening, it was: “He was dead. However, his nose throbbed painfully, which he thought odd, in the circumstances.”) If you’re reading the series in order, rather than piecemeal, you do want to read this book before tackling the the novellas. (1968/1766-67)

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LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER (novel): Set in London in 1757, this is a historical mystery steeped in blood and even less savory substances, in which Lord John meets (in short order) a valet, a traitor, an apothecary with a sure cure for syphilis, a bumptious German, and an unscrupulous merchant prince.

“Lord John and the Succubus” (novella): This story finds Lord John in Germany in 1757, having unsettling dreams about Jamie Fraser, unsettling encounters with Saxon princesses, night‐hags, and a really disturbing encounter with a big, blond Hanoverian graf. [Originally published in the anthology LEGENDS II, edited by Robert Silverburg, 2003. Is also the second novella in the LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS collection ]

LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE (novel): The second full‐length novel focused on Lord John (though Jamie Fraser also appears) is set in 1758, deals with a twenty‐year‐old family scandal, and sees Lord John engaged at close range with exploding cannon and even more dangerously explosive emotions.

“Lord John and the Haunted Soldier” (novella): This tale is set in 1758, in London and the Woolwich Arsenal, in which Lord John faces a court of inquiry into the explosion of a cannon, and learns that there are more dangerous things in the world than gunpowder. Written for and first appeared in the LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS collection.

“The Custom of the Army” (novella): Set in 1759. In which his lordship attends an electric‐eel party in London and ends up at the Battle of Quebec. He’s just the sort of person things like that happen to. [Originally published in WARRIORS, edited by George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, 2010. Included in SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL. ]

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VII. AN ECHO IN THE BONE (major novel): Set in America, London, Canada, and Scotland, this is the seventh novel in the main series. The book’s cover image reflects the internal shape of the novel: a caltrop. That’s an ancient military weapon that looks like a child’s jack with sharp points; the Romans used them to deter elephants, and the Highway Patrol still uses them to stop fleeing perps in cars. This book has four major story lines: Jamie and Claire; Roger and Brianna (and family); Lord John and William; and Young Ian, all intersecting in the nexus of the American Revolution—and all of them with sharp points. (1776‐1778/1980)

VIII. WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD (major novel): The eighth of the main series, BLOOD begins where AN ECHO IN THE BONE leaves off, in the summer of 1778 (and the autumn of 1980). The American Revolution is in full roar, and a lot of fairly horrifying things are happening in Scotland in the 1980s, too.

“A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows” (short story (no, really, it is)): Set (mostly) in 1941‐43, this is the story of What Really Happened to Roger MacKenzie’s parents. [Originally published in the anthology SONGS OF LOVE AND DEATH, eds. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois, 2010. Included in SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL. ]

“The Space Between” (novella): Set in 1778, mostly in Paris, this novella deals with Michael Murray (Young Ian’s elder brother), Joan MacKimmie (Marsali’s younger sister), the Comte St. Germain (who is Not Dead After All), Mother Hildegarde, and a few other persons of interest. The space between what? It depends who you’re talking to. [Originally published in the anthhology THE MAD SCIENTIST’S GUIDE TO WORLD DOMINATION, edited by John Joseph Adams, 2013. Included in SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL. ]

Book IX (major novel) – GO TELL THE BEES THAT I AM GONE. The past may seem the safest place to be… But it is the most dangerous time to be alive… Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. This book is shaped like a snake, and it starts from the tail.

In the Works:

Novels that are not finished or published yet, and so are not reflected in the chronology at present:

Book X (major novel) – Book Ten (No Title Yet): This novel may be be the last book in my series of major novels focussing on the story of Jamie and Claire. It will take me a few years to write this book and do the research for it.

I have a few other ideas for projects after Book X is off to the publisher, including a prequel featuring Jamie’s parents and a book about Master Raymond. Stay tuned!

NOW REMEMBER . . .

You may read the short novels and novellas by themselves, or in any order you like.

As stated above, I would strongly recommend reading the Big, Enormous Books in order, though.

LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS is not a novel, but rather a collection of three novellas: “Hell-Fire Club,” “Succubus,” and “Haunted Soldier.” In these tales, Lord John vows to avenge a murder, investigates a terrifying “night-hag” on the battlefields of Europe, and discovers treason in His Majesty’s ranks. The first two of these novellas were originally published in anthologies, while “Haunted Soldier” was written expressly for this book.

SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL features seven novellas, all written by me, and all dealing with the interesting side-stories and lacunae of the Outlander universe. Five of these novellas were originally published in various anthologies, and in the U.S./Canada have also been published singly as ebooks. (Not, however, in the UK/Australia/NewZealand, Germany, etc.) Two of the novellas were first published in this collection.

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What to Expect in Outlander Season 7, According to the Books

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If a season of Outlander doesn’t end with resourceful time traveler Claire Fraser (Caitríona Balfe) and/or her broad-shouldered Highlander husband, Jamie (Sam Heughan), in a precarious situation, is it even a season of Outlander ? Someone’s life has to be left dangling at some point on the danger scale; otherwise, what are we doing here? Season six follows the tradition: We left Claire in prison, wrongfully accused of murder (and of being a witch, but like, when isn’t she being accused of that?), and Jamie racing to find her. What will happen next? Will Claire hang for a crime she didn’t commit?

Good news, Outlander friends: The answers are already tucked away in Diana Gabaldon’s novel series. We don’t have to wait to find out what happens! While Outlander the TV series doesn’t strictly adhere to the novels it’s based on, sometimes moving story lines around or changing them completely, the show has thus far mostly followed the events of each novel in order. This most recent season pulled the majority of its plot from book six, A Breath of Snow and Ashes , which means the upcoming season seven will be based mostly on book seven, An Echo in the Bone .

Now, if you look at that stack of very long Outlander novels and are turned off because you subscribe to famed philosopher and Happy Endings character Penny Hartz’s school of thought that “reading’s stupid, TV rules!,” you’re in the right place! Below, find some predictions as to what Claire and Jamie might get up to in season seven based on all the intel we have from the seventh novel. You don’t have to read a thing! Except for this post. Sorry, we can’t do everything for you. Obviously, all of the spoilers to follow.

First, we have to wrap up the events of book six.

Ah, yes. Because of the pandemic and some other scheduling issues, Outlander ’s sixth season was a truncated one with just eight episodes. While the series left Claire alone in a jail cell facing a possible execution for a crime she didn’t commit, all of the Malva Christie stuff gets wrapped up in A Breath of Snow and Ashes , and it seems likely the TV series will start season seven by finishing that story line. And, uh, it’s a doozy, folks. Tom Christie admits to having feelings for Claire and knows she’s innocent, so he confesses to killing his daughter in order to spare Claire’s life. But Tom isn’t guilty either — eventually Allan Christie confesses to Claire that he is both the father of his sister’s child and that he murdered her to stop her from telling anyone. Yeah, it gets pretty dark. But unsettling as it all is, that should (mostly) be a wrap on the Christies, and honestly, good riddance.

Then we time travel.

Again, this will include some plot points that take place in book six that have yet to happen on the show: Once Bree has her daughter, Amanda, Claire realizes she has a heart murmur, and nothing can be done about it in 1776. Bree, Roger, and their two children return to the future and wind up in 1980, where they move into — surprise! — Lallybroch. Book seven, An Echo in the Bone , finds the MacKenzies rebuilding their lives in their new (old) time, but that doesn’t mean the time travel hijinks end. They end up getting a visitor from the past: William Buccleigh MacKenzie. You know, the secret son of Dougal MacKenzie and Geillis Duncan, Roger’s ancestor, who … had him sorta hanged that one time ? That’s not awkward at all, right? Well, that guy accidentally goes through some stones, ends up in 1980, and makes his way to Roger and Bree for help. I’m crossing my fingers for this to happen in season seven for two reasons: One, it’ll be fun to see a dude from the 1770s try to make sense of the 1980s, and two, you might recall that when we met Buck in season five, he was played by Graham McTavish (who also played Dougal), and it’s always a delight when he pops up on Outlander . Give us the Buck!

But that’s not the only time travel happening in 1980: One of Bree’s colleagues, Rob Cameron, decides to kidnap Jemmy, and they believe he’s taken him back in time. Toward the end of An Echo in the Bone , Roger and Buck travel back through the stones in an effort to save Jemmy. Sorry to say, but Jem’s not there — still, it sounds as though those two distant relatives will be going on a real adventure.

Speaking of Lallybroch, we’ll get a long-awaited (and bittersweet) family reunion.

At the end of A Breath of Snow and Ashes , Wendigo Donner ransacks the Fraser house looking for gems in order to travel, a fight ensues, and the house burns down. Jamie and Claire don’t die in that fire, but it does answer most of the questions about that pesky obituary. This hasn’t happened in the show yet, but in season six we did get a peek at someone who looks like Donner at the jail in Wilmington, where, conveniently, Claire is being held. In the show, it looks as if Donner already has a gem, but regardless, it seems things are aligning for some version of this fire to happen soon. The fire is important because it is the impetus for Jamie, Claire, and Young Ian to travel back to Scotland so Jamie can get his printing press and bring it back to America. The trip to Scotland and the Frasers’ time in their homeland is a major part of the book, so I suspect we’ll get some Scotland time within season seven’s 16 episodes. Their time there is bittersweet, though: Yes, they get to have a long-(so long!)awaited reunion with Jenny and (old) Ian at Lallybroch, but they also learn that Ian is dying from consumption. Timing is everything, especially in Outlander , right?

And there’s that other kind of family reunion, in which one participant doesn’t realize he’s a part of the family.

I’m talking about Jamie’s son William, of course. There’s a lot of William in An Echo in the Bone . We haven’t seen him on the show since that time he and Lord John Grey visited and John got the measles in season four , but here we find him grown and a loyal member of the British Army. Does that make things confusing for our resident rebel Jamie Fraser? You bet. While William has his own adventures to go off on, the crux of his story has always been the secret about his true biological father. You knew eventually that secret would get out, right? Well, it’s not until the end of book seven that William learns the truth. Who knows if we’ll get that far in William’s story just yet, but Jamie’s secret son should at least begin to play a bigger role in the overall narrative.

Then something really wild happens …

Seriously, if you want some surprises regarding Claire and Jamie’s future, stop reading right here. You’ve made your choice!

So Claire and Ian leave Scotland without Jamie and later receive word that the boat Jamie was supposed to be traveling on to America sank, and they believe Jamie to be dead. Everyone’s really sad about it. Then, when Claire is about to be arrested for being a spy (she is constantly getting into trouble — we know this), someone offers to marry her in order to give her protection. Did you guess Lord John Grey? Because yes, Claire and Lord John end up married in book seven, and yes, they drunkenly (and full of grief for the loss of Jamie, whom they both love with all of their heart) consummate that marriage. And then Jamie shows up alive and well! It’s a wild turn of events, so best start preparing yourself now in anticipation of what’s sure to be a controversial story line come season seven.

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Outlander Season 8 Release, Cast & Everything We Know

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Outlander Season 8 is on the way, so here is everything currently known about its cast and upcoming release on Starz.

Based on the Outlander novel series written by Diana Gabaldon, this series centers on a World War II nurse who finds herself taken back in time to 1743, where she falls in love with a Highland warrior.

The show quickly became one of the most highly-regarded historical dramas in the game, traveling across centuries of human history and highlighting some of the biggest wars and public events ever seen in the United States and worldwide.

When Is Outlander Season 8 Releasing?

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Deadline announced that Outlander was renewed by Starz for its eighth season in January 2023, also confirming that Season 8 would be the final effort for this series.

However, series star Caitriona Balfe shared with Radio Times that production for Season 8 was delayed due to the writers' strike, noting that a start date was in place prior to the work stoppage:

"Well, we had a date. And now with the writers' strike, who knows? So we have to just wait and see."

This quote indicates that Outlander Season 8 had a start date for production, which likely means that sets and locations were prepped for shooting before Hollywood shut down.

Balfe also told Express in May 2023 that shooting would have started "in a few months," although no specific start date was provided:

"We’re about to start shooting, in a few months, our eighth season but our seventh season is starting to air on June 16th on Lionsgate+."

Filming can kick up fairly quickly since both the writers' and actors' strikes ended in November.

For reference, filming for Season 7 started in May 2022 and finished in February 2023 (confirmed on Instagram by star Sam Heughan), totaling 220 days of shooting before the season debuted on June 16, 2023.

Then Heughan took to Instagram (via TV Insider in November 2023) to share an image of himself in front of a huge Outlander sign with the captions "Season 8..." and "prep," indicating that he was gearing up to start working on the show again.

Assuming Season 8 starts shooting in 2024, that will most likely last throughout most of the year and possibly into early 2025.

Given that timeframe, fans shouldn't expect Outlander Season 8 to hit the air until at least late 2025, but there's a better chance that the show doesn't return until Winter or Spring 2025.

Who’s Cast In Outlander Season 8?

While Season 8's cast hasn't yet been confirmed, a handful of important actors from the first seven seasons are almost certainly set to return to the fray.

Leading the way again will be Caitríona Balfe as Claire Fraser, the aforementioned nurse who is transported to the Scottish Highlands in the 1740s and utilizes her skills throughout history, sometimes resulting in her being put in danger.

Sam Heughan is expected to return as the young Scot Jamie MacKenzie Fraser, portrayed as quite educated and worldly by the standards of his 18th-century origins. He's even granted the title Laird of Broch Taurach before he starts his time-bending relationship with Claire.

Claire and Jamie's daughter, Brianna, should be back in the fold with Sophie Skelton reprising her role, with the character being raised in 20th-century Boston until young adulthood before she learns the truth about her heritage.

Richard Rankin is also expected to be back in Outlander Season 8 as Roger, the adopted son of Reverend Wakefield and a direct descendant of the MacKenzie line. He eventually falls in love with Brianna, and they start a family together, resulting in three children.

Lord John Grey (David Berry) first encountered Jamie and Claire ahead of the Battle of Prestonpans before Jamie spares his life in Season 2, leading to them becoming quite close throughout the decades.

First coming onto the scene in Season 2, Charles Vandervaart should also be back as William Ransom, the son of Lord Ellesmere and Geneva Dunsany, whom Jamie also fathered.

Outside of that, John Bell's Ian Fraser Murray should also be expected to come back, playing a key role as Ian Murray and Jenny Fraser's son.

What Will Happen in Outlander Season 8?

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With the Outlander show consistently following the story laid out in the original Outlander series, Season 8 is set to be based on the ninth book in the series entitled Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone, which comes before a 10th book set to be released at a later date.

It's unclear if the 10th book will be included as part of Season 8's plot, although Sam Heughan told Business Insider that he knows what happens in the story and is sworn to secrecy about the details.

In this story, Brianna appears to suffer some heart damage from time traveling as Claire diagnoses her with atrial fibrillation. In contrast, William travels to his plantation in Virginia and meets somebody who believes he is Lord John's son.

More romantic relationships get underway as Brianna gets a commission to paint a portrait for a rich society couple in Savanah, and she also finds a new time traveler and gets pregnant later in the book.

Executive producer Maril Davis also discussed the show's ending with Radio Times , explaining to fans that she and the team have had plenty of discussions with Diana Gabaldon about the series' conclusion. Once that happens, they'll run the ending by the book's author and get the go-ahead for development:

"We’ve talked to Diana a bit. Once we figure out how the actual ending is going to be – which we don’t totally have yet – I think we’ll run it by her and make sure she’s OK with it."

Davis made it clear that the team doesn't want to step on any toes, assuring the fans that they "want to repay [Gabaldon] and be respectful of her" and do justice to the stories she wrote:

"I’ve asked her about things that we want to do to make sure she’s OK. The last thing we want to do is step on Diana’s toes, she’s been so lovely and supportive of this series and so thrilled with how it’s gone. We want to repay her and be respectful of her, do her books justice."

Gabaldon has also always felt that "the books are hers and the show is something different," showing the forethought to separate the two entities so that the show can exist as its own story separate from the source material: 

"But also, she’s always felt like the books are hers and the show is something different and I love that about her, she gives us that freedom also to take chances and risks and do things slightly differently."

Looking back to the end of Season 7, Claire and Jamie's relationship will be tested against the backdrop of the American Revolutionary War in the 1770s, with their whole family caught in the crossfire.

Considering that those two and their relationship are the centerpiece of the entire Outlander story, Season 8 will give them plenty of action and airtime to send them off with the most appropriate ending possible.

Plenty of mysteries wait to be solved since Gabaldon's 10th book has yet to be released, which could have a huge influence on where the final season goes.

But considering that Outlander hasn't been afraid to divert from its source material in past seasons, that may not be as much of an issue this time, especially with Gabaldon in such close contact with the team behind the TV show.

Outlander Season 8 is waiting for filming to begin, and it hasn't yet a release date.

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Outlander writer Diana Gabaldon said filming for the final season of the hit show will begin later this year.

The author made fans super excited with news about season 8 and the prequel. She has been answering questions fans who can't wait to see more of their favorite show with stars Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe on Social media.

They're also excited about the prequel Outlander: Blood of my Blood which has started being made and even has a new actor, Tony Curran. Diana said on X that they're going to start making season 8 this year too.

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When someone asked if Outlander was still happening, she said: "Well, of course it is. We'll have the second half of Season 7 sometime this year, and then Season Eight (which will begin filming a bit later this year)".

One fan got really happy and said: "Season 8 too??? Wow! Reason enough for me to grow a year older and happier."

But Diana also said she doesn't know when the rest of season 7 will be on TV . Lots of people wanted to know, but she said: "I know absolutely nothing as to air dates."

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She did say she's helping write the scripts for the prequel and season 8, though.

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