The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon [0]
Title Page
Dedication
Praise for Diana Gabaldon’s Outlander Novels
Epigraph
Acknowledgments
Part One
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Part Two
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Part Three
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Part Four
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Part Five
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Part Six
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
Chapter 58
Chapter 59
Chapter 60
Chapter 61
Chapter 62
Chapter 63
Chapter 64
Chapter 65
Chapter 66
Chapter 67
Chapter 68
Chapter 69
Chapter 70
Chapter 71
Chapter 72
Part Seven
Chapter 73
Chapter 74
Chapter 75
Chapter 76
Chapter 77
Chapter 78
Chapter 79
Chapter 80
Chapter 81
Chapter 82
Chapter 83
Chapter 84
Chapter 85
Chapter 86
Chapter 87
Chapter 88
Part Eight
Chapter 89
Chapter 90
Chapter 91
Chapter 92
Chapter 93
Chapter 94
Chapter 95
Part Nine
Chapter 96
Chapter 97
Chapter 98
Chapter 99
Chapter 100
Chapter 101
Chapter 102
Chapter 103
Chapter 104
Chapter 105
Chapter 106
Chapter 107
Chapter 108
Chapter 109
Chapter 110
Chapter 111
Also by Diana Gabaldon
Excerpt from A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Copyright Page
This book is for my Sister, Theresa Gabaldon,
with whom I told the first Stories.
“Gabaldon is a born storyteller.”—Los Angeles Daily News
PRAISE FOR DIANA GABALDON’S
OUTLANDER NOVELS
THE FIERY CROSS
“INTRICATE AND FASCINATING.”
—The Dallas Morning News
“COMPLEX AND ENGROSSING . . . THE WRITING IS SUPERB—LUSH, EVOCATIVE, SENSUAL, WITH A WEALTH OF HISTORICAL DETAIL AND A GOOD DEAL OF HUMOR.”
—Library Journal
“EXCITING AND INSIGHTFUL . . . LOADED WITH
ACTION . . . FANS OF THE SERIES WILL BE DELIGHTED WITH THIS NOVEL. . . .”
—Midwest Book Review
“AN ENTERTAINING AND SWEEPING SAGA OF HISTORY TOLD BY ONE OF AMERICA’S OUTSTANDING NOVELISTS.”
—Abilene Reporter-News
“SPRAWLING . . . VIVID, INCREDIBLY DETAILED.”
—Detroit Free Press
Please turn the page for more extraordinary acclaim. . . .
OUTLANDER
“MARVELOUSLY ENTERTAINING . . . A PAGE-TURNER OF THE HIGHEST ORDER AND A GOOD READ FROM START TO FINISH.”
—Chattanooga Times
“ABSORBING AND HEARTWARMING . . . LAVISHLY EVOKES THE LAND AND LORE OF SCOTLAND.”
—Publishers Weekly
“HISTORY COMES DELICIOUSLY ALIVE ON THE PAGE.”
—Daily News (N.Y.)
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER
“A TRIUMPH! A POWERFUL TALE LAYERED IN HISTORY AND MYTH. I LOVED EVERY PAGE.”
—Nora Roberts
“COMPULSIVELY READABLE.”
—Publishers Weekly
“DIANA GABALDON IS A BORN STORYTELLER. . . . THE PAGES PRACTICALLY TURN THEMSELVES.”
—The Arizona Republic
VOYAGER
“TRIUMPHANT . . . HER USE OF HISTORICAL DETAIL AND A TRULY ADULT LOVE STORY CONFIRM GABALDONAS A SUPERIOR WRITER.”
—Publishers Weekly
“AN AMAZING READ.”
—Arizona Tribune
“MEMORABLE STORYTELLING.”
—The Seattle Times
DRUMS OF AUTUMN
“UNFORGETTABLE CHARACTERS . . . RICHLY EMBROIDERED WITH HISTORICAL DETAIL . . . I JUST
CAN’T PUT IT DOWN.”
—The Cincinnati Post
“PASSIONATE . . . REMARKABLE—A MIX OF HISTORY, FANTASY, ROMANCE AND UNABASHEDLY
RIBALD STORYTELLING.”
—The Arizona Republic
“WONDERFUL . . . THIS IS ESCAPIST HISTORICAL
FICTION AT ITS BEST.”
—San Antonio Express-News
I have lived through war, and lost much. I know what’s worth the fight, and what is not.
Honor and courage are matters of the bone, and what a man will kill for, he will sometimes die for, too.
And that, O kinsman, is why a woman has broad hips; that bony basin will harbor a man and his child alike. A man’s life springs from his woman’s bones, and in her blood is his honor christened.
For the sake of love alone, would I walk through fire again.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS