Jamie Fraser knows from his time-traveling wife Claire that, no matter how unlikely it seems, America will win the Revolutionary War. But fighting for the eventual winner is no guarantee of safety. And worse still, the possibility of pointing a weapon at his own son, a young officer in the British army, haunts Jamie's every thought. In the relative safety of the 20th century, their daughter, Brianna, and her husband experience the unfolding drama of the war through Claire's letters. But the letters can't warn them of the threat that's rising out of the past to overshadow their family.

Prologue -- Part 1: Troubling Of The Waters: -- Sometimes they're really dead -- Sometimes they aren't -- Life for life -- Not yet awhile -- Morality for time-travelers -- Part 2: Blood, Sweat, And Pickles: -- Long island -- Uncertain future -- Spring thaw -- Knife that knows my hand -- Fireship -- Transverse lie -- Enough -- Unrest -- Delicate matters -- Black chamber -- Unarmed conflict -- Wee Demons -- Pulling teeth -- Ae fond kiss -- Regret -- Minister's cat -- Flutterby -- Part 3: Privateer: -- Correspondence from the front -- Joyeux noel -- Bosom of the deep -- Stag at bay -- Tunnel tigers -- Hilltops -- Conversation with a headmaster -- Ships that pass in the night -- Guided tour through the chambers of the heart -- Part 4: Conjunction: -- Flurry of suspicion -- Plot thickens -- Psalms -- Ticonderoga -- Great dismal -- Purgatory -- Plain speech -- Matter of conscience -- Blessing of bride and of Michael -- Shelter from the storm -- Part 5: To The Precipice: -- Crossroad -- Countdown -- Friends -- Three arrows -- Ley line -- High places -- Henry -- Reservations -- Exodus -- British are coming -- Conflagration -- Mount independence -- Return of the native -- Retreat -- While still alive -- Deserter game -- Independence day -- Battle of Bennington -- Deserter game, round 2 -- No better companion than the rifle -- One just man -- Separated forever from my friends and kin -- Gentleman caller -- Hat trick -- Deathbed -- Greasier than grease -- Despoiler -- Terms of surrender -- Sanctuary -- Part 6: Coming Home: -- State of conflict -- Feast of all saints -- One ewe lamb returns to the fold -- Twenty-twenty -- Sic transit Gloria Mundi -- By the wind grieved -- Memorarae -- Old debts -- Cave -- Oenomancy -- Purgatory 2 -- Dispositions -- Counting sheep -- Right of it -- Part 7: Reap The Whirlwind: -- Son of a witch -- Valley forge -- Severance and reunion -- Rather messy -- Ink-stained wretch -- Armed with diamonds and with steel -- Footsteps -- Independence day 2 -- Series of short, sharp shocks -- Paths of death -- Numbness -- Firefly -- Nexus -- Mischianza -- Butterfly in a butcher's yard -- Lady in waiting -- Redivivus -- Bred in the bone -- Hour of the wolf -- Author's notes.