In January, Geillis Duncan gives birth to Dougal MacKenzie’s son William Buccleigh MacKenzie.
In Paris, Claire and Jamie attempt to conspire against Charles Stuart, the „Bonnie Prince“, hoping to prevent the Jacobite Rising of 1745/46 and its bloody end. In the course of his hunt for information, Jamie meets a young English bookseller/spy named Minnie Rennie.
In May, Claire and Jamie lose their daughter, Faith, who is stillborn.
Thinking that they have nipped the Rising in the bud, they return home to Scotland in the Fall.