![]() ![]() Once the country has been settled, however, the family begins to show its weaker strains there are signs of mental illness and alcoholism, as well as bad luck and poor judgment. It chronicles the suffering and success of generation after generation of the family, whose early members seem uniformly brave, generous, enterprising, and hardworking. from colonial times, through the periods of slavery, Westward expansion, industrialization, the World Wars, and the Vietnam era. The history of the Dougans follows the history of the U.S. The lovingly written memoir of an Irish-American family, beginning with Thomas Dougan, immigrant and Revolutionary War patriot, and closing with its author at her mother’s funeral in the 1960s. A most entertaining mix of history and fantasy whose author, like its heroine, exhibits a winning combination of vivid imagination and good common sense. At the close, Claire is relieved to learn that bighearted, ingenious Jamie-who will surely go on to the final installment-has survived. Then the inevitable war breaks out in Scotland, and Claire and Jamie are in the thick of it-until the English draw too near and Jamie sends Claire back through the stone circle to save their unborn baby. Two rapes, Claire's near-fatal miscarriage, Jamie's attempted murder by one enemy and his tormented and volatile feud with another, the evil "Black Jack'' Randall, are only part of the action that keeps things lively. But this espionage is only the beginning. Escaping the English death sentence passed against Jamie, they flee to prerevolutionary Paris, where they secretly work at foiling Bonnie Prince Charlie's efforts to regain the Scottish throne. Framed by these dilemmas, the bulk of the story consists of the second installment of Claire and Jamie's adventures. She's also looking for a way to tell Brianna who her real father is. Now, Frank is dead, and Claire hopes to learn what happened to the second great love of her life-gallant Jamie Fraser, laird of Lallybroch whom she married during her journey into the past. This is Claire's first visit back since she and husband Frank visited 22 years before-when she walked through a Druid stone circle into the middle of the 18th century. It's now 1968, and Claire Beauchamp Randall has returned to Inverness, Scotland, with her daughter, Brianna. Nerve-wracking suspense leavened with romance and spiced with sex: another hit for the prolific Roberts (Blue Smoke, 2005, etc.).Īn engaging time-travel romance, the second of a trilogy (after Outlander, 1991), that animates the people and politics of a pivotal period in history-while turning up the heat between an appealing modern heroine and a magnetic romantic hero. Is it the spiteful disgraced cop or someone from her past? Phoebe must identify the killer before he can carry out his final outrage. Her ex-husband is brutally murdered by the mystery man, who phones her with sadistic threats. A hostage taker is shot after she talks him into surrendering. Dead animals begin appearing on her doorstep. Phoebe is physically and mentally injured, but her family and her blossoming relationship with Duncan help her cope until a dangerous pattern develops: A strange man keeps crossing her path. ![]() He loses his job, but his father’s connections keep him out of jail. Suspended, he blames Phoebe and retaliates by viciously attacking her in the precinct house stairwell. But life takes a turn for the worse when a misogynist cop botches a hostage situation. The charming millionaire coaxes her into meeting for a drink, and their relationship slowly deepens. While talking a suicidal bartender off a ledge, she meets his boss, Duncan Swift. Ever since Phoebe and her family were held hostage when she was 12, her mother has been agoraphobic, and Phoebe and her brother Carter still bear the psychological scars, but Phoebe’s used the memory to hone her skills. Murder mixes with anguish in steamy Savannah.įBI-trained hostage negotiator Phoebe MacNamara is a lieutenant in the Savannah police department. ![]()
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