The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle (813 page)

6.
LONG ISLAND

7.
AN UNCERTAIN FUTURE

8.
SPRING THAW

9.
A KNIFE THAT KNOWS MY HAND

10.
FIRESHIP

11.
TRANSVERSE LIE

12.
ENOUGH

13.
UNREST

14.
DELICATE MATTERS

15.
THE BLACK CHAMBER

16.
UNARMED CONFLICT

17.
WEE DEMONS

18.
PULLING TEETH

19.
AE FOND KISS

20.
I REGRET …

21.
THE MINISTER’S CAT

22.
FLUTTERBY

P
ART
T
HREE
Privateer

23.
CORRESPONDENCE FROM THE FRONT

24.
JOYEUX NÖEL

25.
THE BOSOM OF THE DEEP

26.
STAG AT BAY

27.
TUNNEL TIGERS

28.
HILLTOPS

29.
CONVERSATION WITH A HEADMASTER

30.
SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT

31.
A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE CHAMBERS OF THE HEART

P
ART
F
OUR
Conjunction

32.
A FLURRY OF SUSPICION

33.
THE PLOT THICKENS

34.
PSALMS, 30

35.
TICONDEROGA

36.
THE GREAT DISMAL

37.
PURGATORY

38.
PLAIN SPEECH

39.
A MATTER OF CONSCIENCE

40.
THE BLESSING OF BRIDE AND OF MICHAEL

41.
SHELTER FROM THE STORM

P
ART
F
IVE
To the Precipice

42.
CROSSROAD

43.
COUNTDOWN

44.
FRIENDS

45.
THREE ARROWS

46.
LEY LINES

47.
HIGH PLACES

48.
HENRY

49.
RESERVATIONS

50.
EXODUS

51.
THE BRITISH ARE COMING

52.
CONFLAGRATION

53.
MOUNT INDEPENDENCE

54.
RETURN OF THE NATIVE

55.
RETREAT

56.
WHILE STILL ALIVE

57.
THE DESERTER GAME

58.
INDEPENDENCE DAY

59.
BATTLE OF BENNINGTON

60.
DESERTER GAME, ROUND II

61.
NO BETTER COMPANION THAN THE RIFLE

62.
ONE JUST MAN

63.
SEPARATED FOREVER FROM MY FRIENDS AND KIN

64.
A GENTLEMAN CALLER

65.
HAT TRICK

66.
DEATHBED

67.
GREASIER THAN GREASE

68.
DESPOILER

69.
TERMS OF SURRENDER

70.
SANCTUARY

P
ART
S
IX
Coming Home

71.
A STATE OF CONFLICT

72.
THE FEAST OF ALL SAINTS

73.
ONE EWE LAMB RETURNS TO THE FOLD

74.
TWENTY-TWENTY

75.
SIC TRANSIT GLORIA MUNDI

76.
BY THE WIND GRIEVED

77.
MEMORARAE

78.
OLD DEBTS

79.
THE CAVE

80.
OENOMANCY

81.
PURGATORY II

82.
DISPOSITIONS

83.
COUNTING SHEEP

84.
THE RIGHT OF IT

P
ART
S
EVEN
Reap the Whirlwind

85.
SON OF A WITCH

86.
VALLEY FORGE

87.
SEVERANCE AND REUNION

88.
RATHER MESSY

89.
INK-STAINED WRETCH

90.
ARMED WITH DIAMONDS AND WITH STEEL

91.
FOOTSTEPS

92.
INDEPENDENCE DAY, II

93.
A SERIES OF SHORT, SHARP SHOCKS

94.
THE PATHS OF DEATH

95.
NUMBNESS

96.
FIREFLY

97.
NEXUS

98.
MISCHIANZA

99.
A BUTTERFLY IN A BUTCHER’S YARD

100.
LADY IN WAITING

101.
REDIVIVUS

102.
BRED IN THE BONE

103.
THE HOUR OF THE WOLF

Author’s Notes

Dedication

Acknowledgments

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About the Author

PROLOGUE

The body is amazingly plastic. The spirit, even more so. But there are some things you don’t come back from. Say ye so,
a nighean
? True, the body’s easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled—yet there’s that in a man that is never destroyed.

P
ART
O
NE
A Troubling of the Waters

SOMETIMES THEY’RE REALLY DEAD

The pirate’s head had disappeared. William heard the speculations from a group of idlers on the quay nearby, wondering whether it would be seen again.

“Na, him be gone for good,” said a ragged man of mixed blood, shaking his head. “De ally-gator don’ take him, de water will.”

A backwoodsman shifted his tobacco and spat into the water in disagreement.

“No, he’s good for another day—two, maybe. Them gristly bits what holds the head on, they dry out in the sun. Tighten up like iron. Seen it many a time with deer carcasses.”

William saw Mrs. MacKenzie glance quickly at the harbor, then away. She looked pale, he thought, and maneuvered himself slightly so as to block her view of the men and the brown flood of high tide, though since it
was
high, the corpse tied to its stake was naturally not visible. The stake was, though—a stark reminder of the price of crime. The pirate had been staked to drown on the mudflats several days before, the persistence of his decaying corpse an ongoing topic of public conversation.

“Jem!” Mr. MacKenzie called sharply, and lunged past William in pursuit of his son. The little boy, red-haired like his mother, had wandered away to listen to the men’s talk, and was now leaning perilously out over the water, clinging to a bollard in an attempt to see the dead pirate.