Audio Book Description:
It is 1772, the eve of the American Revolution, and the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit: In Boston,men lie dead in the street, andin the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn inthe darkness of the forest. Andover the house on Fraser`s Ridge, where Jamie Fraser andhis family reside, a shadow lengthens...The Colony is in ferment, and the new royal governor,Josiah Martin, sends an envoy to Jamie Fraser, asking for help.Jamie is, everyone agrees, the man for the job. But there is one problem: Jamie Fraser`s wife, Claire, is a time traveler, as are his daughter and son inlaw. And Jamie knows that threeyears hence, the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the end of it all will beindependence-with those loyalto the King either dead or in exile. Beyond everything else,though, looms the threat of atiny clipping from the Wilmington Gazette dated 1776, whichreports the destruction of the house on Fraser`s Ridge and the death by fire of James Fraser and all his family.For once, Jamie Fraser hopes the timetravelers in his family are wrong about the future-but only time will tell.
