Claire’s 20th century storyline, and the 18th century storylines. Like the previous book, the storyline covers two different timelines. (The book was released 27 years ago, and the television series is about to enter its 5th season… so most people probably know this already.) Certain that Malcolm is Jamie, Claire must choose between staying in the 20th century with her daughter, or returning to the 18th century to be reunited with the man she loves.Īaaaaand she chooses Jamie… with Brianna’s blessing.

Then they discover an article written by in 1765, put out by an Edinburgh printer named A. Knowing he meant to die on Culloden Moor, the last thing she expected to find out was that Jamie survived the battle… but he did. After Frank died, Claire returned to Scotland, told Brianna about Jamie, and -with the help of Roger Wakefield-went about the task of learning the fates of everyone she left behind. Claire spent those years in Boston with her first husband, Frank Randall, raising “their” daughter Brianna and going to medical school to become a surgeon. This is a highly addictive series and fans will be eager to continue with The Drums of Autumn.Twenty years have gone by since Jamie sent Claire back through the stones, so that she and their unborn child would be safe from the aftermath of Culloden. And as the title suggests, there is a lot of voyaging going on. Claire buys a slave, jumps ship, kills someone with an axe and posits a theory for the Loch Ness monster. Gabaldon's plot takes many turns and manages to include hidden gold, a secret son, bigamy, a kidnapping, pirates, black magic, a slave uprising, a crocodile, a séance, a shipwreck, a Chinaman with a foot fetish, and a hurricane. With the novel being in excess of a thousand pages, Gabaldon has plenty of room to tell her tale, so she manages to include much of what happened to Claire and Jamie in the intervening twenty years as well as the rollercoaster ride that is their lives since their reunion. In this instalment, Gabaldon mainly uses Claire as her first-person narrator, but Jamie, John Grey and Roger Wakefield also tell aspects of the story from their perspective. With her daughter's blessing, she returns to the Standing Stones at Craigh na Dun to revisit the eighteenth century and find the man she never stopped loving. Having learned that Jamie did not die at Culloden, Claire, Brianna and Roger use their investigative skills to track his movements some two hundred years later. Voyager is the third book in the Outlander series by American author, Diana Gabaldon.

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon