Written in my own heart's blood : a novel / Diana Gabaldon.
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TextSeries: Gabaldon, Diana. Outlander ; bk. 8.Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 825 pages : genealogical table ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780385344432Subject(s): Fraser, Jamie (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Randall, Claire (Fictitious character) -- Fiction | Scottish Americans -- Fiction | Time travel -- Fiction | Philadelphia (Pa.) -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- Fiction | United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783 -- FictionGenre/Form: Love stories. | Historical fiction. | Fantasy fiction. DDC classification: 813/.54 LOC classification: PS3557.A22 | W85 2014Summary: "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...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"--Provided by publisher.
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Genealogical table on endpapers.
Includes bibliographical references.
"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...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"--Provided by publisher.
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