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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    A linked sequence of vignettes set between 1768 and 1779, following Lord John Grey, Manoke, and William through the years when Mount Josiah becomes their refuge. It explores grief, desire, fatherhood, trust, restraint, and the private intimacies by which a wounded man learns how to survive.

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    After Isobel’s death, Lord John Grey comes to Virginia carrying too many ghosts: a dead wife he loved imperfectly, a son who is and is not his, and a life spent surviving behind polished manners and necessary lies.

    In Richmond, he finds Manoke again—older, wary, betrayed by the empire that used him and mistrusted by some of the people he tried to protect. John offers him shelter at Mount Josiah, a remote place where no one knows his face.

    Manoke does not stay—not always, not as John might wish—but he returns. Over the years, he becomes the one harbour the Englishman can neither command nor keep. With him, John is made to answer for the truths he has hidden even from himself: Isobel, William, Jamie Fraser, grief, fear, shame, and love.

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    01 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    An old injury resurfaces, threatening John Grey's life. Claire Fraser takes drastic action to save him and in doing so, opens him up to a new world of possibilities.

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    24 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    “In the light of eternity, time casts no shadow.” - Written In My Own Heart’s Blood

    Jamie was on the Euterpe. Together Claire and John survive.

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    17 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 2

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    09 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 7

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    Many years ago, Lord John William Grey acknowledged owing an obligation. Now the time had come to fulfill it.

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    16 Feb 2026