Brianna and Roger welcome their second child, Amanda Claire Hope MacKenzie. They grant Brianna with the choice to choose Bonnet’s fate – to which she chooses to shoot him. In the second act of heroism, Jamie and his men manage to save Brianna and capture Bonnet. Roger then baptizes the boy.īonnet kidnaps Brianna and takes her aboard his pirate ship, the Anemone. Henri is born with dwarfism which prompts a lot of rumours about Fraser’s Ridge, which Roger rejects. Masali, Jamie’s step-daughter, gives birth to a boy named Henri. Roger finds a new lease of life in religion and becomes ordained in the Presbyterian Church. Young Ian then shoots Tom in the back with an arrow. It is revealed that Malva and her half-brother, Allan, had been sexually intimate for years and after falling pregnant, Malva was planning on telling the truth about their relationship. Despite Malva’s father admitting to the murder, it is found that he too is innocent. Claire is accused of the murder for reasons of jealousy. Poor Malva is then found dead in Claire’s backyard and despite her best efforts, both mother and child die. After falling pregnant, she accuses Jamie as being the father, much to everyone’s shock. Malva Christie moved to Fraser’s Ridge with her brother, Allan, and father, Tom in the previous novel. They are unsure if the father of the baby is Josiah or Keziah Beardsley, so naturally Lizzie marries both twins and the throuple raise the child as their own. Lizzie Wemyss reveals that she is pregnant. Claire wakes up shocked when she realises that her nurses had shaved her hair in the attempt to nurse her. Bug and Malva Christie tend to her and manage to eventually nurse her back to health, but not before taking extreme measures to try and lower her fever.

Unable to catch a break, Claire falls severely ill with dysentery.

Jamie and the men of the Ridge kill almost all of her kidnappers. Jamie eventually finds Claire and rescues her. During the three-day capture, Claire is brutalized by the group of assailants. Coming from 1968, the man is from the same group as Robert Springer. Notably, one of the kidnappers by the name Wendigo Donner happens to be a time-traveller. While Jamie is gone, Claire busies herself in continuing to treat the ill and poorly members of the community.ĭuring one of Jamie’s trips, a group of men kidnap Claire from Fraser’s Ridge. This assignment takes Jamie away from their home for substantial chunks of time, travelling far and wide to communicate with the Cherokee tribes. Still in North Carolina, Jamie gets assigned the position of ‘Indian Agent’, a person hired by the British Crown to negotiate with Native American tribes.

A breath of snow and ashes