But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past.or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong.

In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history.and to save their lives. Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. Drums of Autumn is the fourth novel in the Outlander series by Diana Gabaldon. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend-a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Diana Gabaldons fans will be delighted to find Jamie and Claire as spirited and endearing as ever in this fourth installment of this magnificent saga. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past-or the grave.

It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle.

Drums of autumn