Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ΓÇó Diana Gabaldon returns with the ΓÇ£vast and sweepingΓÇ¥ (The Washington Post) new novel in the epic Outlander series. War leaves nobody alone. Neither the past,the presentnor the future offers true safetyand the only refuge is what you can protect: your familyyour friendsyour home. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746and it took them twenty years of loss and heartbreak to find each other again. Now itΓÇÖs 1779and Claire and Jamie are finally reunited with their daughterBriannaher husbandRogerand their childrenand are rebuilding their home on FraserΓÇÖs RidgeΓÇöa fortress that may shelter them against the winds of war as well as weather. But tensions in the Colonies are great: Battles rage from New York to Georgia andeven in the mountains of the backcountryfeelings run hot enough to boil HellΓÇÖs teakettle. Jamie knows that loyalties among his tenants are split and it wonΓÇÖt be long before the war is on his doorstep. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700sΓÇöamong them diseasestarvationand an impending warΓÇöwas indeed the safer choice for their family. Not so far awayyoung William Ransom is coming to terms with the mysteries of his identityhis futureand the family heΓÇÖs never known. His erstwhile fatherLord John Greyhas reconciliations to make and dangers to meet on his sonΓÇÖs behalf and on his ownand far to the northYoung Ian Murray fights his own battle between past and futureand the two women heΓÇÖs loved. Meanwhilethe Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to FraserΓÇÖs Ridge. Jamie sharpens his swordwhile Claire whets her surgeonΓÇÖs blade: It is a time for steel.