One hundred pages to go...Claire and Jamie have survived a dangerous sea crossing complete with pirates and battles on the seas and a war and have just arrived back in Scotland with their nephew Ian who is on the run for murdering someone albeit in defense of a girl he likes. Never a dull moment!
Reading this book is like reliving all of Claire and Jamie's past. I can't believe how many characters have been reintroduced in this book and how many past events have been referred to. Even Madame Jeanne, the brothel owner where Jamie first met Fergus is back. Mrs. Figg, Percy Beauchamp, Lord John Grey, William, Willie Coulter and Ardsmuir prison, William Buccleigh Mackenzie, Morag and Jemmie, Jacosta Cameron and Dougal MacKenzie are all mentioned or play a part in this sequel. It's a real homecoming.
What is interesting is how many of these characters fit into the mysterious chain of unfolding events, pieced together like a puzzle. The mysterious Rob Cameron works for Brianna in the present (1980 in the book). Is he somehow related to Jacosta Cameron and what will that mean to the plot? William Buccleigh Mackenzie is the witches' son, with green eyes resembling his mother's. He's shown up in the present without his wife and child and desperately needs to get back to them. However, Roger's family tree shows that he died at the age of 38. When Brianna asks him his age she realizes he'll never make it back home to his family.
I wonder how many more twists and turns the plot will take and how all the pieces will fit together in the end. I hope I won't be disappointed.
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