Written in my own Heart's Blood

This is the eighth and (currently) last novel in Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series. It was awesome - a 1,200-plus page romp through Revolution-era America (Philadelphia, New York, Savannah), interesting goings-on in 1980's Scotland, and even a trip to late 1730's Scotland.

I'll try not to give anything away, but here's where everyone is: Jamie is alive and he and Claire are with General George Washington's troops, as is Ian as a scout. Lord John's son (Jamie's natural son) William is on the British side, though not permitted to fight. In the 1980's, Bree and Roger's son Jem has been kidnapped and they fear he's been taken back in time for the family treasure, so Roger and his time-traveling kinsman Buck go back through the stones - but they wind up in the wrong year, going back to a time when Jamie's father was still alive and Jamie and his sister Jenny were teenagers.

Roger finds a way to communicate to Bree when his is, and she works to reunite her family. Meanwhile Claire and Jamie, Ian and his soon-to-be-wife Rachel, William, Lord John, and everyone else, are dealing with some very real Revolutionary War battles. But all Claire wants is to go home to Fraser's Ridge.

I think this is one of my favorites in the series since the first book. I don't know why, maybe just because it's the most recent one I read. Given that it takes Diana a few years to do all the research and writing for a novel, I'm going to have to wait to see what happens next. I'm thinking I may go back to read one of the earlier novels, but for now I've got a bunch of other stuff piled up on my reading list to catch up on.

Written in my Own Heart's Blood