The Fiery Cross (novel)

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name = The Fiery Cross
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author = Diana Gabaldon
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country = United States
language = English
series = "Outlander" series (book 5)
genre = Historical novels
publisher = Delacorte Press
release_date = November 6, 2001
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 992 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-385-31527-9
preceded_by = Drums of Autumn
followed_by = A Breath of Snow and Ashes

"The Fiery Cross" is book five in the best-selling "Outlander" series, written by Diana Gabaldon. The stories center around a time-travelling 20th-century doctor (Clare Randall Fraser) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (Jamie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, and America.

The heroine of the bestselling Outlander, Claire, returns in "The Fiery Cross" as a reluctant oracle and wife to Jamie Fraser, her 18th century lover, and facing the politics and turmoil of the forthcoming American Revolution. As the preceding novel, Drums of Autumn, concluded with Jamie Fraser and his wife Claire helping their daughter and new son-in-law, from the 20th century, settle into life on Fraser's Ridge, "The Fiery Cross" picks up the storyline exactly where it was left - with Brianna Ellen Randall Fraser and Roger Mackenzie about to make their nuptials official and baptise their son Jeremiah. With the American Revolution now only a few years away and unrest brewing Jamie is called to form a militia to put down the beginnings of rebellion in North Carolina, and risking his life for a king he knows he must betray - and soon. Gabaldon delivers the endings to several strands of storyline she had woven through Drums of Autumn, mysterious plots and characters are revealed in the course of this intricate plot - leaving the Frasers and their family poised on the edge of war.

"The Fiery Cross" is an involved story of the Frasers and the intricate web of their lives and family, of devotion and hope, trust and friendship, and characters reunited. As the fifth in what is now a six-book series (according to the author there will be a Book 7, possibly a Book 8) of Claire Randall Fraser and her Highlander husband Jamie, the story is an integral step in a bestselling and surprisingly rich tale spanning the time from the Scottish Rising of 1745, to the American Revolution.