A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon

It was late afternoon, and a chilly spring day, but the Lindsay shook his head, eyes closed, and shivered convulsively. Surely ye saw as much when ye brought them out?” “No.” Jamie laid the soot-smeared handkerchief gently back over the staring blue face of a small girl. “Was it savages, Mac Dubh? They’re no scalped, but maybe-” Had it been daylight, I’d never ha’ kent it, never.” He wiped a trembling hand over his face, unable to take his eyes off the line of bodies that lay at the edge of the forest.

“I wouldna ha’ seen at all,” he said, for perhaps the sixth time. No one had known the cabin was there, until Kenny Lindsay had seen the flames, on his way up the creek. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future. 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.

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. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Now, A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. Since the initial publication of Outlander fifteen years ago, Diana Gabaldon’s New York Times bestselling saga has won the hearts of readers the world over - and sold more than twelve million books. Eagerly anticipated by her legions of fans, this sixth novel in Diana Gabaldon’s bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes by Diana Gabaldon