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Drums of Autumn

Diana Gabaldon, Geraldine James (1997)

SubgenreTime Travel Romance
Age groupAdult 18+
Content ratingR
Pages (Doorstopper (600+))
SettingScottish Highlands
CSM age18+

Content levels

ViolenceModerate
Sexual contentExplicit
LanguageModerate

Protagonist archetypes

Multiple POVsTime-Displaced

Synopsis

The magnificent saga continues....It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past--or the grave. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. 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. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Their daughter, Brianna....Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. 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. 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....From the Paperback edition.

Tags

Historical FictionFantasyAdventureFamily Saga

Drums of Autumn: content & age rating

Intended for adult readers (18+).

This epic time-travel romance contains explicit sexual content, including non-consensual encounters, and moderate violence typical of frontier/colonial-era settings. Mature themes of family separation, time-travel consequences, and historical brutality are central.

What to know going in

This book has moderate violence, explicit sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include sexual assault, rape, and death (see the full list above).

Who'll love this

Adult readers will be swept away by this multi-generational time-travel saga following a daughter's quest to find her parents across centuries.