Trusting in Claire’s knowledge of “history,” Jamie leads the Jacobite army into a critical battle with British opposition near the town of Preston. Meanwhile, Claire attends to the dead and dying, a reminder of the truest costs of war.
In “Je Suis Prest”: Claire and Jamie reunite with the Lallybroch and MacKenzie men as they train for war, but Jamie’s power struggles with Dougal and Claire’s personal battle with her memories of WWII weigh upon them.