A Breath of Snow and Ashes - Diana Gabaldon

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 continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser
and his 20th-century wife, Claire.

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.

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.


From the Hardcover edition.