An Echo in the Bone
Diana Gabaldon's brilliant storytelling has captivated millions of readers in her bestselling and award-winning Outlander saga. Now, in An Echo in the Bone, the enormously anticipated seventh volume, Gabaldon continues the extraordinary story of the eighteenth-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.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
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Seventh in the Outlander series. Jamie and Claire on a frigate to Scotland, Roger and Bri raising kids in the eighteenth century, Lord John in occupied Philadelphia. Three continents, two centuries.
An Echo in the Bone is the seventh novel in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series, published in 2009. It follows An Earlier Foreshadow and is followed by Written in My Own Heart's Blood.
Yes. An Echo in the Bone assumes detailed knowledge of all six earlier Outlander novels. The series is heavily serialized and not designed for new readers to enter mid-stream.
An Echo in the Bone is 834 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, An Echo in the Bone takes most readers 13 to 18 hours to finish.
An Echo in the Bone is a standalone novel by an unknown author, not part of a series.
An Echo in the Bone is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.