A French boy named Claudel, brought up in a brothel, helps Jamie flee from some thugs, and Jamie hires him to steal the prince's correspondence, and renames him Fergus. After learning that Charles Stuart is trying to get money from the French king Louis XV to fund the Jacobite cause, they travel to Paris, where Jamie uses his cousin Jared's wine business to gain the aristocratic connections necessary to plot against Stuart. Brianna angrily denies her mother's story, but Roger is fascinated, and Claire recounts her time after the events of Outlander.Īt the end of Outlander, Claire has convinced Jamie to stop the Jacobite rising and the subsequent slaughter. Claire reveals Brianna's true paternity to her and Roger.
He accompanies Claire and Brianna to an old churchyard, looking for the grave of Jonathan Randall, Frank's ancestor, but also finds Jamie Fraser's gravestone: it is part of a "marriage stone", showing Claire's name but no date. Roger, using his Oxford credentials to obtain information, finds proof that the men of Lallybroch returned home safely. There, Claire hopes the Reverend's adopted son, Roger, can help her discover what happened to the men of Lallybroch after the Battle of Culloden. Following his death, she brings her daughter, Brianna, to the home of the Randalls' old friend, Reverend Reginald Wakefield. Plot summary Scotland, 1968 Ĭlaire Randall has returned to her own time, where she has been living for 20 years with her husband Frank. The show's second season-which aired May through July 2016-was based on the events of Dragonfly in Amber. This installment chronicles Claire and Jamie's efforts to prevent the Jacobite rising that Claire knows will end disastrously for the Scots.Ī television adaptation of the series, called Outlander, premiered on Starz in August 2014. Centered on time travelling 20th century nurse Claire Randall and her 18th century Scottish Highlander warrior husband Jamie Fraser, the books contain elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and fantasy. Dragonfly in Amber is the second book in the Outlander series of novels by Diana Gabaldon.
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