Part ONE: RUMORS of WAR
Chapter 1: An INTERRUPTED CONVERSATION
near Fraser’s Ridge, March 1773
page 5
• Ian sees a group of some twenty-three men. They attack and Ian is hit, but is undetected by the group.
• Ian’s conversation with God was interrupted: A sign, I said. I didna quite expect Ye to be so prompt about it, though.
Chapter 2: DUTCH CABIN
near Fraser’s Ridge, March 1773
page 7
• A group from the Ridge, brought by Kenny Lindsay, buries the Dutchmen and his family (his wife, three children, and his wife’s mother) along with 2 others unidentified men.
• Roger gives the eulogy
• Claire worries about the death notice printed February 13, 1776, telling of a fire that will kill Jamie and Claire on “January 21st last”.
Chapter 3: KEEP YOUR FRIENDS CLOSE
Fraser’s Ridge, March 1773
page 14
• Major MacDonald arrives from New Bern and enjoys Lizzie’s beer
• An injured Ian is treated by Claire
Chapter 4: SERPENT in EDEN
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1773
page 19
• After returning from the Dutch cabin, Brianna discovers a racoon invaded her pantry
• Roger and Brianna, after an enjoyable afternoon alone, walk to the McGillivray’s to fetch Jem
Chapter 5: The SHADOWS WHICH THROW FIRE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1773
page 24
∙ Major MacDonald tells of two more burning incidents in the past few months
∙ Jamie agrees to take on the new Scottish immigrants as tenants, despite his misgivings about how well “fisher-folk” will do in the mountains.
∙ MacDonald conveys Gov. Tryon’s offer of having Jamie create a Committee of Safety.
∙ Ian: “Auntie? D’ye think I’ll ever see my Mam again?”
Chapter 6: AMBUSH
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1773
page 32
∙ Jamie tends Ian in the surgery; Ian asks Jamie about the upcoming war.
∙ Roger and Brianna walk through the woods to the MacGillivray’s when they are beset upon by the Beardsley twins; Roger tells Brianna a bit of his bad boy past in Inverness and Godzilla
∙ The MacGillivray’s engagement party for Senga.
Chapter 7: JAMES FRASER, INDIAN AGENT
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1773
page 53
∙ Jamie and Claire retire for the night and discuss the prospect of his being an Indian Agent, the upcoming war, the upcoming extermination of the Indian population, the horror at the Dutchman’s cabin....
∙ Jamie: “If I die,” he whispered in the dark, “dinna follow me. The bairns will need ye. Stay for them. I can wait.”
Part Two: A GATHERING OF SHADOWS
Chapter 8: VICTIM of a MASSACRE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April, 1773
page 63
∙ Lord John writes to Jamie of the Boston Massacre and Bobby Higgins, dated April 14th, 1772
Chapter 9: The THRESHOLD of WAR
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 1773
page 65
∙ Claire is a bit upset over whether LJ may have sent Bobby Higgins for “repair”
∙ J/C discuss LJ; Jamie tells her of his offer to John at Helwater. If LJ had accepted: “I should have broken his neck by the lake,” he said. “It wouldna mattered if they’d hanged me; I’d not have let him have the boy.”
∙ Richard Brown and Lionel Brown pay a visit and attempt to arrest Bobby Higgins
∙ Both Bobby and Lizzie faint. Jamie makes plans to leave with the Beardsleys (who are to get gallberries) to the Cherokee villages.
Chapter 10: DUTY CALLS
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 1773
page 80
∙ Jamie POV: Goes to talk to Roger about the upcoming war
∙ Jamie recalls the fortune-teller in Paris: “You’ll die nine times until you rest in your grave.”
∙ Remembers Murtagh: “Don’t be afraid, laddie. It doesna hurt a bit, to die.”
Chapter 11: BLOODWORK
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 1773
page 83
∙ Claire looks at Lizzie’s blood
∙ Claire preliminarily diagnoses Bobby with hookworm
Chapter 12: FURTHER MYSTERIES OF SCIENCE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 1773
page 85
∙ Jamie sends Roger Mac to Cross Creek, along with Arch Bug and Tom Christie, to fetch the new tenants.
∙ Roger tries to explain the strife between the Protestants and Catholics in Scotland in terms of the civil rights movement of the 60s.
Chapter 13: SAFE HANDS
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 1773
page 89
∙ At the end of a very long day, Jamie and Claire talk over dinner, Jamie wondering how many times he’s come close to dying:
1. in the Abbey after Wentworth;
2. after Culloden;
3. Laoghaire’s shot
4. the snake bite
5. Dougal’s ax attack
∙ Claire: “You’re a very hard person to kill, I think,” I said. “That’s a great comfort to me.”
Chapter 14: PEOPLE of the SNOWBIRD
a Cherokee Village ~ summer 1773
page 91
∙ Jamie and Ian discusses with Bird-who-sing-in-the-morning (aka Tsisqua) the burnings and guns from the Crown
∙ Jamie fends off 2 Indian maidens *cough*
Chapter 15: STAKIT to DROON
River Run ~ summer 1773
page 97
∙ Roger collects the 22 families (with 67 people total) for the journey to Fraser’s Ridge.
∙ Duncan tells Roger the story of his grandsire being a Covenenter, and how his sister (Duncan’s great aunt) was “stakit to droon”
∙ Roger considers the Presbyterian doctrine of predestination 1646 v 1960s.
∙ Roger wonders about the Highland charmer who repaired Duncan’s hairlip.
∙ Phaedre (21 - 22?) tells Roger about her encounter with Bonnet: “Who’s your daddy? ... God damn it, I am, you bastard!”
Part Three: TO EVERY THING THERE IS A SEASON
Chapter 16: LE MOT JUSTE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ August 1773
page 109
∙ Jamie returns home from visiting the Indian villages; Claire details the happenings while he was gone:
∙ the new tenants arrive and Claire, not thinking they would be up, comes upon them praying in the kitchen.
∙ firing of the grasshoppers in the barley field
Chapter 17: The LIMITS of POWER
Fraser’s Ridge ~ August 14th, 1773
page 112
∙ Jamie writes to Lord John: his appointment as Indian Agent, the Committees of Safety, the Browns, the new tenants thinking Claire a witch.
Chapter 18: VROOM!
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late summer 1773
page 116
∙ Brianna’s Dreambook: running water, her family’s china cabinet
∙ Brianna’s experiments with the matches and she is trying to figure out how to have hot, running water.
∙ Roger makes a “vroom” for Jemmy
Chapter 19: MAKING HAY
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late summer 1773
page 119
∙ Major MacDonald and Bobby Higgins arrive on the last day of haymaking
∙ Bobby, Joe & Kezzie all court the betrothed Lizzie: “For such a wee small lass, yon Lizzie does cause a good deal of trouble.”
∙ MacDonald comes with news of 2 more burning, one of which is behind the Treaty Line.
∙ Claire thinks of their own death notice, having burned in a fire on January 21, 1776.
Chapter 20: DANGEROUS GIFTS
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1773
page 128
∙ Lord John send Claire the Oil of Vitriol and a Pelican Retort (letter dated September 4th)
∙ Bobby tells Claire the story of the whore with half her face burned by vitriol.
∙ Jamie returns from a visit with Bear-who-sings-in-the-morning quite lustful, at the same time several Indians arrive.
∙ Claire removes Mouse’s tooth. She is the brother of Red Clay Wilson. They embarrass Hiram Crombie, one of the new tenants, by suggesting the visiting Indians are related? Hiram: “Great-Uncle Ephraim. Jesus save us.”
∙ Another Indian arrives ~ Sequoyah ~ with the remains of the man who died at his home on the other side of the Treaty Line. Brianna calls him “Ephraim” at the funeral.
∙ Jamie and Claire ask each other: “Do ye wish ye were — back?” Jamie shows Claire the site for the new house and they talk of their life together: “Above all creatures on this earth” he whispered,” you are faithful.”
Chapter 21: WE HAVE IGNITION
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1773
page 143
∙ Brianna comes to tell of her success with the matches, only to have Mrs. Bug ruin it, thinking Brianna is pregnant.
∙ Tom Christie comes to have Claire tend a cut on his hand, which ends in a testing of the wills between Tom and Jamie: “At least, at least it will be an honorable scar. Wont’ it, Mac Dubh?”
∙ Roger lights a match to light their lovemaking.
Chapter 22: ENSORCELLMENT
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1773
page 155
∙ Malva Christie (dark-haired, slender, and quiet, but seemed intelligent) comes to Claire for ointment for her father’s hand.
∙ Malva looks through Claire’s “black book” and asks her how she learned.
∙ Tom Christie warned his daughter not to touch the book: “He warned me not to touch it, for fear of ensorcellment.
Chapter 23: ANESTHESIA
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1773
page 158
∙ Claire makes ether.
∙ Arch tells the story of losing his the first two fingers of his right hand by the Fraser’s of Glenhelm
∙ Claire goes to the Christie’s cabin to remove Tom’s stitches; they argue over St. Paul.
∙ Tom Christie comes for his surgery
Chapter 24: TOUCH ME NOT
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1773
page 170
∙ Claire tends to Tom Christie after the surgery;
∙ Tom asks Claire why Jamie took the flogging at Ardsmuir: "It was an act of extra ... extraordinary ... nobility and – courage. Im-incompre... hensible.”
∙ Claire and Jamie discuss Alex MacGregor’s Bible.
∙ Jamie tells Claire of his loneliness in Ardsmuir: “The thought would come to me sometimes, and I would think I kent what Jesus must feel like there – so wanting, and no one to touch Him.”
Chapter 25: ASHES TO ASHES
near Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1773
page 180
∙ Jamie and Roger prepare to leave for the Indian villages
∙ They come upon the hanged bodies of Tige O’Brian and his wife, and the badly burned, dying girl.
∙ Confrontation with Richard Brown, Lionel Brown and their posse.
Part Four: ABDUCTION
Chapter 26: An EYE to the FUTURE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 9th, 1773
page 193
∙ Roger and Jamie return.
∙ Is Fergus beating Marsali?
Chapter 27: The MALTING FLOOR
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 9th, 1773
page 198
∙ Claire speaks to Marsali about Fergus
∙ Marsali recounts a story from childhood: Laoghaire beaten by one of her husbands.
∙ A large group of men attack Marsali and take Claire hostage.
Chapter 28: CURSES
near Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 10th 1773
page 216
∙ Claire recognizes some of her captors: Harley Boble, Lionel Brown, and Hodgepile.
∙ Lionel Brown breaks his leg
∙ At camp, Claire is beaten violently by Boble and raped.
∙ Donner talks to Claire
∙ Jamie rescues Claire and kills her captors.
∙ Roger, Fergus, Arch, Kenny Lindsay, Tom Christie
Chapter 29: PERFECTLY FINE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 11th 1773
page 242
∙ Jamie brings Claire home
Chapter 30: The CAPTIVE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 12th 1773
page 262
∙ Claire talks to Ian, Fergus, and Jamie about questioning Lionel Brown
∙ Tom Christie comes to have his hand tended; he and Claire discuss the novel, Tom Jones
Chapter 31: AND SO TO BED
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 12th 1773
page 277
∙ Jamie tells Claire what they learned of Hodgepile’s gang and the Browns’ involvement
∙ Jamie tells Claire about the Indian women
∙ Jamie dreams of BJR: “Kill me,” he said. “My heart’s desire.”
Chapter 32: HANGING’S TOO GOOD
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 13th 1773
page 284
∙ Mrs Bug: “Hanging’s too good for him.”
∙ Claire worries she might be pregnant.
Chapter 33: IN WHICH Mrs. BUG TAKES a HAND
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 14th 1773
page 286
∙ Lionel Brown crawls to Claire’s surgery; she tends him
∙ Mrs. Bug smothers Lionel Brown and scuffles with Claire as she tries to save him.
∙ Arch Bug calls Jamie his chieftain and offers his life for Murdina’s.
Chapter 34: The EXHIBITS in the CASE
Brownsville ~ October 19th 1773
page 300
∙ Jamie delivers the body of Lionel Brown to his brother in Brownsville.
∙ “There is never an end to such things,” he said quietly. “But we are alive. And that is good.”
Part Five: GREAT UNEXPECTATIONS
Chapter 35: LAMINARIA
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 1773
page 305
∙ Claire visits Marsali only to feel something is terribly wrong with the baby
∙ Marsali delivers a healthy baby boy, but he is a dwarf.
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Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 1773
page 306
∙ Fergus disappears
∙ Young Ian tells Marsali about Emily losing their child.
Chapter 37: Le MAITRE des CHAMPIGNONS
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 1773
page 328
∙ Fergus tells Claire of the lives of dwarfs in Paris.
∙ Fergus: “I cannot keep my family!” and “My God! He is as useless as I am!”
Chapter 38: A DE’IL in the MILK
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 1773
page 332
∙ There is fighting going on around the Ridge because of Henri-Christian.
∙ Roger goes to Amy McCallum’s aid
Chapter 39: I AM the RESURRECTION
Fraser’s Ridge ~ November 1773
page 340
∙ The um... almost funeral, then funeral of Mrs. Wilson, Hiram Crombie’s MIL
∙ The sin eater; Claire’s reaction to the actual death
Part Six: ON THE MOUNTAIN
Chapter 40: BIRD-SINGING
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1774
page 361
∙ Jamie tells Roger he must sell one of the gemstones
∙ The white sow attacks Major MacDonald
Chapter 41: The GUN-SMITH
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1774
page 361
∙ Jamie asks Robin McGillivray for 30 muskets
∙ *inside Jamie’s brain for how he sees people and their connections like a constellation*
∙ Robin: fought with Jamie at Culloden and spent 3 years with him at Ardsmuir.
∙ Brianna asks Jamie to warn the Cherokee about the Trail of Tears.
Chapter 42: DRESS REHEARSAL
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 1774
page 374
∙ Claire tests the ether on Bobby Higgins and Lizzie with the help of Malva Christie
∙ Bobby, while under, sees a terrible, dark, woman’s form... who?
Chapter 43: DISPLACED PERSONS
Near the Indian Village ~ March 1774
page 380
∙ Jamie and Ian are attacked by Goose and Light;
∙ They agree to help them barter for Light’s wife
Chapter 44: SCOTCHEE
Indian Village ~ March 1774
page 386
∙ Jamie ponders those few women, including Claire, who “radiate that strange appeal, that remarkable gift, held by a few women, that by-passed such superficial appreciations as looks, age, or wit, and caused a man simply to wish to seize her and-"
∙ Jamie meets John Cameron, another Indian Agent, who agrees to take the 3 (Goose, Light & his wife) to be adopted by another tribe.
∙ Jamie remembers Culloden: did he kill 14? 15?
∙ Jamie tells Bird about the Trail of Tears
∙ Bird’s mother comes to “comb the snakes from your hair.” He talks of “Scotland – and Culloden. Of grief. Of loss. Of fear.”
Chapter 45: A TAINT in the BLOOD
Fraser’s Ridge ~ June 1774
page 395
∙ Manfred comes to Claire and admits he is poxed, and his lover is dead from the disease
∙ Lizzie has another malarial attack
Chapter 46: IN WHICH THINGS GANG AGLEY
Fraser’s Ridge ~ June 1774
page 401
∙ Manfred bolts; Jamie tells Robin McGillivray the bad news about his son
∙ Ute McGillivray attacks Claire; Claire has a horrible flashback episode
∙ Claire explains “good bug” and “bad bugs” to
∙ Claire tells Malva about sex: babies, prostitutes, and pleasure.
Chapter 47: BEES and SWITCHES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ June 1774
page 408
∙ Claire sees Tom Christie giving Malva a tawsing
∙ Jamie and Claire discuss the difference in times re discipline and wife-beating... and his hearing Jenny/Ian go at it one day.
∙ Jamie admits he never cared enough about Laoghaire to thrash her, i.e. own her.
Chapter 48: WOODEARS
Fraser’s Ridge ~ 1774
page 417
∙ Jamie and Malva talk as he shows her where to find woodears. Malva tells him people say Claire is a witch, but Malva doesn’t believe so. She would, though, like to be “just like her, sir!”
∙ Malva tells of him a little of her family history, which is a bit confusing.
Chapter 49: The VENOM of the NORTH WIND
Fraser’s Ridge ~ July 1774
page 422
∙ Brianna and Jamie find a charm with the burnt bones of man’s fingers
∙ Jemmy learns to swim
∙ Brianna thinks the charm might have been set by Amy McCallum. Mrs. Bug tells her the history of the love char called the Venom o’ the North Wind.
Chapter 50: SHARP EDGES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ Summer
page 432
∙ Roger catches Malva snogging Bobby Higgins; she threatens him with Amy McCallum
∙ Aidan’s emergency appendectomy, with Malva as anesthetist.
∙ Roger and Allan Christie exchange blows; Brianna and Roger do likewise over Amy McCallum
Chapter 51: The CALLING
Fraser’s Ridge ~ Summer
page 442
• Roger tells Jamie he intends to become a minister.
Chapter 52: M-I-C
Fraser’s Ridge ~ Summer
page 446
• Roger tells Brianna
• Brianna tells Jamie about their family trips to Disneyland
Part Seven: ROLLING DOWNHILL
Chapter 53: PRINCIPLES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ July 3, 1774
page 453
• Jamie writes to Lord John asking him for assistance in acquiring 30 muskets.
• J/C discuss how to navigate this early part of the upcoming war.
Chapter 54: FLORA MacDONALD’S BARBECUE
River Run ~ August 6, 1774
page 457
• Claire has a flashback
• Claire tries to find information on the whereabouts of Manfred McGillivray
• Claire has a run-in with Gerald Forbes
• Jocasta’s eye and the man coming to her again for the Gold.
• One half bar of the gold is already missing; the other safe when last checked.
• Phaedre: “All I know – something aint right.”
Chapter 55: WENDIGO
River Run ~ August 20th, 1774
page 482
• Brianna shows Ian the miniatures of her mother and father
• Donner shows at River Run singing “Yellow Submarine”
• Manfred McGillivray was seen at a brothel in Cross Creek
Chapter 56: TAR and FEATHERS
Cross Creek ~ August 21st 1774
page 495
• Claire visits Dr. Fentiman, learns of Bonnet’s testicle injury, and purchases a penis syringe.
• Claire learns the family of the local apothecary are going back to England
• Jezebel Hatfield Morton searches for Isiah Morton, who is in town with Allie Brown and their infant daughter.
• Jamie fights to save the printer from tar-and-feathers ~ gets Forbes, instead
• Jamie and Claire visit Mrs.Sylvie’s to treat the girls for pox.
Chapter 57: The MINISTER’S RETURN
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 4th 1774
page 519
• Roger returns and as “provisionally a minister of the word.” He can “preach, teach, and bury”.
• Performs his first baptism: Rogerina Ogilvie.
Part Eight: THE CALL
Chapter 58: LOVE ONE ANOTHER
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1774
page 529
• Roger loosens his vocal cords in the woods; chats with Ian and Allan Christie
• Roger’s first sermon is almost interrupted by a snake.
• Brianna wonders what about her calling: “I’ve always thought I do have a calling... something I was meant to do. But I don’t know yet what it is.”
• Roger dreams about killing Harley Boble.
Chapter 59: FROGGY GOES A-COURTING
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1774
page 537
• Lord John writes on behalf of Bobby Higgins: Lizzie or Malva?
• J/C discuss Amy MacCallum and Roger; could Jamie convince LJ to switch sides?
• Joseph Wemyss denies Bobby’s request to marry Lizzie.
• Jamie was not invited to the meeting to pick delegates to the Continental Congress; he’s being shut out probably because of the printer (Simms) and Gerald Forbes.
Chapter 60: The PALE HORSEMAN RIDES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 21st 1774
page 547
• Claire, Brianna, and Lizzie discover Hortense MacNeill and her girls dreadfully ill.
• The baby dies in Brianna’s arms. Hortense dies, too. They find Padraic in the grass.
Chapter 61: A NOISOME PESTILENCE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 22nd 1774
page 553
• Jamie and Claire discuss whether Claire is immune to the germs which killed Hortense and her baby (Padraic and the older girl survive).
• Claire tells Jamie how it is different for Brianna, in her time children don’t die of bloody flux.
Chapter 62: AMOEBA
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1774
page 557
• Claire shows Malva the amoebic stranger responsible for the illness affecting the Ridge and tells her penicillin is ineffective against it.
• Brianna comes to borrow a bit of sulfuric acid (vitriol) to make paper. Malva remembers her mother having some.
• Some four days after Hortense died (September 21st) Claire falls ill (September 25th?)
Chapter 63: MOMENT OF DECISION
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late September 1774
page 561
• Claire’s NDE
• She decides to stay: No, I thought, with great calm. That won’t do.
Chapter 64: I AM THE RESURRECTION, PART 2
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late September 1774
page 563
• Claire regains consciousness after almost a week ill.
• She discovers her head shorn, to her great horror. She learns of who else fell ill about Henri-Christian
• Fergus tried to kill himself; Jamie found him at the white spring.
Chapter 65: MOMENT of DECLARATION
near Woolam’s Mill ~ late September/October
page 576
• Jamie declares himself for liberty
Chapter 66: The DARK RISES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late September/October
page 580
• Brianna yells at her mother: “You are not allowed to die.”
• Claire escapes to see Tom Christie
• Jamie: “If ye were no longer there – or somewhere – then the sun would no longer come up of go down.”
Chapter 67: The LAST LAUGH
the Indian Village ~ October 1774
page 587
• Jamie and Ian take Hiram Crombie to Bird’s Indian village, bringing the 30 guns as his last act as Indian Agent
• November 1st: Jamie resigns.
Part Nine: The BONES of TIME
Chapter 68: SAVAGES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October
page 593
• Jamie decides to sell the emerald, but will not sell the black diamond. He’s seen Claire in her own time... she’ll need it to go back.
• Jamie buys a print shop for Fergus in New Bern.
• Marsali and the children leave the Ridge
Chapter 69: A STAMPEDE of BEAVERS
near Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 25th 1774
page 600
• Ian takes Brianna to show her something
• Ian tells B about meeting William and Lord John.
Chapter 70: EMILY
near Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 26th 1774
page 614
• Ian tells Brianna about Emily and losing their child;
• shows her the mammoth
• Should Ian go back to Emily? Or stay at the Ridge?
Chapter 71: BLACK PUDDING
Fraser’s Ridge ~
page 632
• Roger learns the prayer when killing
• Phaedre’s letter arrives: YU CUM
Chapter 72: BETRAYALS
River Run ~ late November 1774
page 641
• Jamie and Claire learn Hector Cameron is Phaedre’s father
• Phaedre disappeared October 31st
• Duncan admits to sexual relationship with Phaedre
Chapter 73: DOUBLE-DEALING
Fraser’s Ridge ~ December 1774
page 654
• J/C discover Joseph Wymss at the whiskey clearning: Lizzie is 4 months pregnant to one of the Beardsley twins
• Lizzie tells Claire
• Lizzie and Kezzie marry; Joe removes a portion of Kezzie thumb, to match his own.
Chapter 74: SO ROMANTIC
Fraser’s Ridge ~ December (approx)
page 667
• Roger and Brianna talk about whether Claire should have told Brianna about time travel and Jamie.
• Roger marries Lizzie and Jo
Chapter 75: LICE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ December (approx)
page 675
• Roger and Brianna discover Jem is Roger’s son b/c of the birth mark behind his ear
• The first issue of The Onion arrives
Part Ten: WHERE’S PERRY MASON WHEN YOU NEED HIM?
Chapter 76: DANGEROUS CORRESPONDENCE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ March 16th 1775
page 685
• Lord John writes to Jamie: What in the name of God are you about?
• Jamie admits to writing pieces under the name Scottus Americanus.
• Jamie writes to LJ: It is too late.
Chapter 77: The EIGHTEENTH of APRIL
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 19th 1775
page 689
• Brianna and Roger marvel at being there on the day of Paul Revere’s ride
• Lizzie gives birth to a baby boy.
Chapter 78: The UNIVERSAL BROTHERHOOD of MAN
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late April/early May 1775
page 698
• Brianna makes paper
• Roger holds the first Lodge meeting at the cabin
Chapter 79: ALARMS
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late April/early May 1775
page 701
• Marsali writes of acquiring the other print shop in New Bern
• Jamie receives a copy of the Lexington Alarm
Chapter 80: The WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN
Fraser’s Ridge ~ early May 1775
page 704
• Malva asserts Jamie is the father of her child
• Accuses Jamie of sleeping with her during Claire’s illness (en d of Sept)
• Claire bolts; Jamie finds her and tells her about Mary McNab
Chapter 81: BENEFIT of the DOUBT
Fraser’s Ridge ~ early May 1775
page 718
• Possible fathers: Obediah Henderson, Bobby Higgins, any others?
• Roger thinks: “But it was early May now, and Malva Christie was six months gone with child. Which meant that she’d got that way in November. The crisis of Claire’s illness was had been in late September.... Right, then, it frigging was impossible.”
• Roger visits Malva and gets nowhere, maybe making things worse.
• Bobby Higgins and Ian have it out after he learns Malva is pregnant.
Chapter 82: NOT the END of the WORLD
Fraser’s Ridge ~ early May 1775
page 725
• Ian tells Claire that Malva’s child might be his ... or Bobby Higgins’s.
Chapter 83: DECLARATIONS
Charlotte, Mecklenberg County ~ May 20th 1775
page 729
• Jamie and Gerald Forbes argue; Jamie declares himself for liberty.
• Roger learns he can be ordained at Presbytery in Edenton “early next month”.
Chapter 84: AMONG the LETTUCES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late May
page 734
• Claire discovers Malva’s murdered body in her garden, attempts and emergency c-section to save the unborn child.
Chapter 85: The STOLEN BRIDayE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late M
page 737
• Approximately a week after the murder, Jamie takes a band of men to steal Monika Berrisch for Joseph Wymsss.
• The women discuss who could be Malva’s murderer.
• Monika Berrisch comes for Joseph.
Chapter 86: PRIORITIES
Fraser’s Ridge ~ late May/early June
page 742
• Roger prepares to leave for Edenton to be ordained at the Presbytery;
• Brianna to stay at River Run
Chapter 87: JUSTICE IS MINE, SAYETH THE LORD
Fraser’s Ridge ~ June 21st 1775
page 744
• Richard Brown and his Committee of Safety come to arrest Claire for the murder of Malva.
• Tom Christie offers himself as surety; he will accompany the group.
Chapter 88: IN THE WAKE OF SCANDAL
en route from Fraser’s Ridge ~ late June 1775
page 757
• Their first night en route, Tom Christie offers his dinner to Claire
• Claire and Jamie are stoned outside of Hillsboro
Chapter 89: A MOONLIGHT FLIGHT
en route to ?? ~ late June 1775
page 763
• Ian offers escape; Jamie refuses
• Jamie realizes Tom Christie is in love with Claire
Chapter 90: FORTY-SIX BEANS TO THE GOOD
New Bern ~ late June 1775
page 766
• Jamie is taken away from the group; Claire is taken to New Bern
• Claire delivers the baby of another prisoner
Chapter 91: A REASONABLY NEAT SCHEME
New Bern ~ late June 1775
page 778
• Jamie discovers Gerald Forbse’s plan to remove him to England aboard Bonnet’s boat.
Chapter 92: AMANUENSIS
New Bern ~ late June 1775
page 781
• Claire is taken to the Governor’s mansion to tend to the Governor’s wife.
• Gov Martin presses Claire into service as his secretary
Chapter 93: IN WHICH I IMPERSONATE A LADY
New Bern ~ late June/early July 1775
page 792
• Claire writes to John Ashe and sends a letter to Jamie via Fergus’s print shop.
• Governor Martin flees New Bern with Claire impersonating his wife.
• HISTORICAL NOTE: According to several on-line sources Governor Martin either left the mansion in April 25th, 1775, arriving at Fort Johnston on June 2nd. Martin took refuge on the HMS Cruizer on July 13th. John Ashe torched Fort Johnston on July 20th 1775.
Chapter 94: ABSQUATULATION
New Bern ~ late June/early July 1775
page 797
• Jamie and Ian arrive at Fergus’s print shop; he reads Claire’s note
• Jamie and Ian go to the mansion, only to see Claire riding away with the governor.
• Claire learns she is on her way to Brunswick.
Chapter 95: THE CRUIZER
Aboard the Cruizer ~ mid-July 1775
page 802
• Claire has been aboard the Cruizer for nearly a week; she is very worried for Jamie. Had John Ashe received her message? Had he helped Jamie?
• Major MacDonald talks with Claire; she tells him the truth about Malva
Chapter 96: GUNPOWDER, TREASON, and PLOT
Aboard the Cruizer ~ July 20th, 1775
page 812
• John Ashe torches Fort Johnston on July 20th 1775
• July 21st: Jamie comes for Claire
Chapter 97: FOR THE SAKE OF ONE WHO IS
Aboard the Cruizer ~ July 20th, 1775
page 817
• July 22nd: Tom Christie confesses to the murder of her daughter
• Tom tells Claire about Malva’s mother and her desire for Claire’s power
Part Eleven: IN THE DAY OF VENGEANCE
Chapter 98: TO KEEP A GHOST AT BAY
On the road ~ July 22nd 1775
page 825
• Claire was released just before sunset; she, Jamie and Ian ride out of town as far as possible before stopping at an inn
• Claire mourns
Chapter 99: OLD MASTER
River Run ~ July 1775
page 831
• Jem asks his mother about the ghost walking near Hector Cameron’s tomb;
• Brianna realizes she is pregnant
• Duncan tells Brianna the gold is gone
Chapter 100: A TRIP to the SEASIDE
en route to Edenton ~ July 1775
page 838
• Gerald Forbes kidnaps Brianna
Chapter 101: NIGHTWATCH
Edenton ~ July 1775
page 838
• p839: “Continental Congress had met ... two months before”: convened May 10th 1775.
• Roger in Edenton on the night before his ordination
• The story of the attack on Breed’s Hill
• Roger questions whether he could swear “before God that he believed in the doctrine of predestination.”
Maybe I don’t believe that, so much, he thought, doubt stealing in. But maybe I do. Christ – oh, sorry – he apologized mentally – can I be a proper minister, with doubts? I think everyone’s got them, but if I’ve got too many – maybe ye’d best let me know now, before it’s too late.
• Jamie comes for him moments later: “He’s taken Brianna,” Jamie said without preamble. “Ye’ll come.”
Chapter 102: ANEMONE
Aboard the Anemone ~ July 1775
page 842
• Brianna, aboard Stephen Bonnet’s ship, the Anemone, avoids being raped by telling Bonnet she is with child.
• Brianna gets help from the prostitute, Eppie.
• The ship sails; Brianna thinks back to the night she conceived.
Chapter 103: PUT to the QUESTION
Edenton ~ July 1775
page 851
• Ian and Roger questions Gerald Forbes about Brianna
• Jamie “kidnaps” Gerald Forbes’s mother for lunch.
• Forbes tells Ian and Roger that Brianna is aboard the Anemone with Stephen Bonnet, en route to England. Ian cuts of Forbes’s ear.
Chapter 105: The PRODIGAL
Edenton ~ July 1775
page 857
• Jamie/Roger/Ian learn more about the Anemone
• Roger learns he missed his opportunity for ordination.
• Eppie and Manfred tell them what they know of Brianna aboard the Anemone: she’ll be at Ocracoke at the dark of the moon, in 10 days time.
• Abaord the Anemone, Brianna soothes Bonnet from his nightmare of drowning.
Chapter 106: RENDEZVOUS
Ocracoke ~ August 1775
page 863
• Searching the island of Ocracoke, Roger finds the stone circle used by Donner.
• Claire gets info from the captain of their ship.
• Another ship anchors off of Ocracoke
Chapter 107: The DARK of the MOON
Ocracoke ~ August 1775
page 869
• Brianna arrives on Ocracoke
• Brianna finds Phaedre at the house; learns it was Ulysses who took her from River Run
• Brianna, held captive, questions the balance of time travelers.
• Brianna is “inspected” by a potential buyer; she balks and is beaten, then brought back.
Chapter 108: DAMN TALL
Ocracoke ~ late July/early August 1775
page 883
• Brianna is rescued
• Bonnet lives to go to trial.
Chapter 109: ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT
New Bern ~ September 25th 1775
page 893
• King George’s proclamation
• Bonnett is convicted and sentenced to death by drowning.
Chapter 110: The SMELL of LIGHT
Fraser’s Ridge ~ October 2nd 1775
page 894
• Jocasta, Duncan, and Ulysses arrive at Fraser’s Ridge after selling River Run.
• Jocasta smokes some pot and tells Claire about her relationship with Ulysses.
• Jamie confronts Ulysses who is not responsible for the loss of the gold.
Chapter 111: JANUARY TWENTY-FIRST
Fraser’s Ridge ~ January 21, 1776
page 901
• The family retires to the cabin, fearful this will be the day the house burns as per the death notice.
• Major MacDonald asks Jamie to muster as militia for the King; Jamie refuses
• The pantry goes up in flames
Chapter 112: OATHBREAKER
Fraser’s Ridge ~ February 2nd 1776
page 909
• Jamie gathers the men and asks them to join his militia for the rebels; he is to leave in a week
• Preparation for the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge (February 27th 1776)
• Jamie tells Claire that Murtagh is with him.
Chapter 113: The GHOSTS of CULLODEN
near Wilmington ~ February 27th 1776
page 915
• The Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge
• Jamie remembers Murtagh at Culloden
Part Twelve: TIME WILL NOT BE OURS FOREVER
Chapter 114: AMANDA
Fraser’s Ridge ~ April 21st 1776
page 921
• Amanda is born
• Claire discovers Amanda’s defective heart, but unfortunately can’t fix it; the family will need to return to the 20th century.
• Mandy can hear the stones, as per Jemmy.
Chapter 115: NOSEPICKER
Wilmington ~ July 4th 1776
page 926
• Jamie and Ian steal a chyrsoberyl from Gerald Forbes
Chapter 116: The NINTH EARL of ELLESMERE
Wilmington ~ July 9th 1776
page 931
• Brianna meets her 18-yo brother, William.
• Lord John tells Brianna about Willim; she tells him about growing up in Boston.
Chapter 117: SURELY JUSTICE and MERCY SHALL FOLLOW ME
Wilmington ~ July 10th 1776
page 943
• Stephen Bonnet’s execution by drowing
• Brianna shoots Bonnet in the ear
Chapter 118: REGRET
Wilmington ~ July 1776
page 946
• Jamie and Lord John watch Brianna and William
• Lord John gives Hector’s ring to Jamie for Brianna
Chapter 119: LOTH TO DEPART
Fraser’s Ridge ~ September 1776
page 948
• Bobby Higgins comes to the Ridge to stay
• Jamie and Brianna talk about what it would be like for Jamie in the 20th century
• “Second Sleep” scene ~ Jamie gives Claire a stone; she throws it out the window.
Chapter 120: IF ONLY FOR MYSELF
Ocracoke ~ November 1st 1776
page 953
• Rober, Brianna, Jemmy and Amanda go through the stones.
Chapter 121: ACROSS the ABYSS
Wilmington ~ November 4th 1776
page 955
• Jamie dreams of the MacKenzies at the Manse with Fiona.
Chapter 122: The GUARDIAN
Fraser’s Ridge ~ November 1776
page 957
• Allan Christie confesses to Malva’s murder
• Ian kills Allan.
Chapter 123: RETURN of the NATIVE
Fraser’s Ridge ~ December 21st 1776
page 960
• Donner et al come to the Ridge looking for stones
• Mrs. Bug is discovered with the gold.
• The Big House burns
Chapter 124: PROPERTY of the KING
Fraser’s Ridge ~ December 22nd 1776
page 970
• Jamie confronts Arch Bug about the gold
• Arch tells Jamie that Murdina killed Brown b/c he saw the gold
• Jamie tells Claire he intends to go to Scotland to fetch his printing press
EPILOGUE I: LALLYBROCH
Lallybroch ~ 20th century
page 976
• Brianna and the children are at Lallybroch with the contractor
• Roger arrives with a box with Jemmy’s name on it. In it, a letter from her father dated December 31, 1776.
EPILOGUE II: The DEVIL is in the DETAILS
Wilmington ~ ??
page 980
• the printers set the death notice of the fire in December, but print it as “January”.
Book 6
A breath of snow and ashes
First published 2005
1772. The fire of the rebellion blazes: in Boston, corpses lie in the streets, and in North Carolina, shacks are ablaze in the forest. A shadow hangs over Fraser’s Ridge, the community in which Claire and Jamie spent happy days. When the governor searches for a charismatic figure capable of uniting the hinterland and easing tensions between Indians and settlers, all the members of the colony in turmoil see Jamie as the right man for the job. But things are not so simple ... Despite themselves, Claire and the Scottish warrior are carried away in a whirlwind of violence, settling of scores and treachery. After defying the centuries, will their love be able to survive these torments?