However, there are a few things in the storytelling. After all, it’s about wrapping up the tale for this particular novel and get a few things set up for the next book. We don’t get much foreshadowing at this point in the story. It was kept for the Outlander Season 5 premiere, and I’ll get to why I thought that was the case and what I thought about the change in the adaptation section. It was the only part of the chapter that was eventually used in the series. We get the blood oath with Roger making his position clear. This is one of my favorite chapters of Drums of Autumn.

Roger is ready to make that part clear to all. He comes across probably the safest member of the family first, and then he finally gets to see Brianna and his son. That happens in Outlander Book 4, Chapter 66. It’s time for him to see what’s in store for him when he finally returns. I liked this one, too the leaf being a poetic metaphor for the “echoes” of familial relationships and events that delicately vein the book.Outlander Season 4 - Courtesy of Aimee Spinks/STARZ Roger makes it back to Fraser’s Ridge in Outlander Book 4, Chapter 66Īt the end of Outlander Book 4, Chapter 65, we found out Roger had made it to the clearing where he’d first met Jamie Fraser. You Have Been Warned.Įschewing such explicitly savage (if accurate) imagery, the UK publisher chose instead to put a skeletal leaf on the cover. No matter which way you throw it, it will always land with three tines down, the fourth one pointing straight up-and every tine ends in a sharp point. A caltrop resembles a child’s jack, but with four tines. The US cover design for this book shows a caltrop (and not, as one wit suggested to me, a Celtic chicken-foot)-an ancient military weapon, designed to stop oncoming cavalry (and still in equally effective use by the modern Highway Patrol, for stopping cars). Jamie’s nephew Young Ian: his troubled love-life is about to take another sharp left turn.Lord John Grey and his step-son William (Jamie’s unacknowledged illegitimate son), are embroiled in the Revolution on the British side with William in the army and Lord John on the clandestine side of intelligence and.

Their daughter Brianna, her husband Roger MacKenzie, and their two children, settled at Lallybroch in the 1970′s (finding their feet after their return from the past-but are unaware that that past is just about to leap out at them again).

Jamie and Claire Fraser, are now in the midst of the American Revolution.

The seventh-but NOT the last!-novel in the OUTLANDER series, An Echo In The Bone, has four main storylines:

Outlander book 4