The Drums of Autumn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 044022425X ISBN 13: 9780440224259

Publisher: Dell, 1997

The magnificent saga continues....

It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna....

Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history...and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past...or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong....

Review:

Set in pre-Revolutionary War America, readers finally have the much awaited fourth book in what will probably become a six book series (The Outlander series). The talented Diana Gabaldon continues Claire and Jamie's romantic love affair, and introduces Brianna and Roger's story. Eight hundred pages, and several wonderful new characters later, we wonder why we were waiting for a conclusion. It'll be a long wait for book five, so I recommend you go back and reread Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, and Voyager to keep yourself sane.

From the Publisher:

The New York Times Bestseller

A featured alternate selection of the Literary Guild and the Doubleday Book Club

"Unforgettable characters...richly embroidered with historical detail...I just can't put it down."
--The Cincinnati Post

"Drums of Autumn is Diana Gabaldon at her finest and most mesmerizing."
--Affaire de Coeur

"Passionate...remarkable--a mix of history, fantasy, romance and unabashedly ribald storytelling."
--Arizona Republic

"Wonderful....this is escapist historical fiction at its best."
--San Antonio Express-News