![]() ![]() Here Claire and Jamie, with Jamie’s nephew Young Ian, seek to find a place for themselves in the colony of North Carolina, treading a dangerous line between Governor Tryon’s patronage and Claire’s knowledge of the brewing revolution in America, between the help of Jamie’s Aunt Jocasta, last of his MacKenzie kin (“MacKenzies are charming as larks in the field–but sly as foxes with it.”) and the unwanted obligations of her slave-run plantation. Suddenly the proceedings are disrupted, as another prisoner makes a break for it–and Jamie, moved by the death of his friend, impulsively helps the man, a pirate named Stephen Bonnet, to escape a decision that will have long-reaching and unforeseen effects.ĭRUMS OF AUTUMN is the fourth book in the OUTLANDER series, following VOYAGER. One of Jamie’s old companions from his days in Ardsmuir prison is being hanged for theft, and Jamie has come to lend what support he can. I was morbidly aware of necks at the moment…”ĭRUMS OF AUTUMN opens with a hanging. ![]() I wiped my face for the tenth time in as many minutes and lifted the heavy coil of my hair, hoping for a cooling breeze upon my neck. My shift was soaked through, and the cotton bodice clung between my breasts. ![]() The best places were on the seawall, where the air moved here below, it was like being roasted alive. The beating echoed in the pit of my stomach, as though I too were hollow… it was a hot day, even for Charleston in June. “I heard the drums long before they came in sight. ![]()
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