Written in My Own Heart's Blood

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Authors: Diana Gabaldon

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DIANA GABALDON

Dedication

This book is dedicated to ALL of the people
(
besides me
)
who worked like fiends
to produce it for you.
Especially to

CONTENTS

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue

PART ONE

Nexus

1:

A HUNDREDWEIGHT OF STONES

2:

DIRTY BASTARD

3:

IN WHICH THE WOMEN, AS USUAL, PICK UP THE PIECES

4:

DON’T ASK QUESTIONS YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR THE ANSWERS TO

5:

THE PASSIONS OF YOUNG MEN

6:

UNDER MY PROTECTION

7:

THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES OF ILL-CONSIDERED ACTIONS

8:

HOMO EST OBLIGAMUS AEROBE
(“MAN IS AN OBLIGATE AEROBE”)—HIPPOCRATES

9:

A TIDE IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN

10:

THE DESCENT OF THE HOLY GHOST UPON A RELUCTANT DISCIPLE

11:

REMEMBER PAOLI!

12:

EINE KLEINE NACHTMUSIK

13:

MORNING AIR AWASH WITH ANGELS

14:

INCIPIENT THUNDER

15:

AN ARMY ON THE MOVE

16:

ROOM FOR SECRETS

17:

FREEDOM!

18:

NAMELESS, HOMELESS, DESTITUTE, AND VERY DRUNK INDEED

19:

DESPERATE MEASURES

20:

OF CABBAGES AND KINGS

21:

BLOODY MEN

22:

THE GATHERING STORM

23:

IN WHICH MRS. FIGG TAKES A HAND

24:

WELCOME COOLNESS IN THE HEAT, COMFORT IN THE MIDST OF WOE

25:

GIVE ME LIBERTY . . .

PART TWO

Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch . . .

26:

A STEP INTO THE DARK

27:

NOTHING’S SO HARD BUT SEARCH WILL FIND IT OUT

28:

WARMER, COLDER

29:

RETURN TO LALLYBROCH

30:

LIGHTS, ACTION, SIRENS

31:

THE SHINE OF A ROCKING HORSE’S EYES

32:

“FOR MANY MEN WHO STUMBLE AT THE THRESHOLD ARE WELL FORETOLD THAT DANGER LURKS WITHIN”

33:

IT’S BEST TO SLEEP IN A HALE SKIN

34:

SANCTUARY

35:

AN GEARASDAN

36:

THE SCENT OF A STRANGER

37:

COGNOSCO TE

38:

THE NUMBER OF THE BEAST

39:

THE GHOST OF A HANGIT MAN

40:

ANGELS UNAWARE

41:

IN WHICH THINGS CONVERGE

42:

ALL MY LOVE

43:

APPARITION

44:

AMPHISBAENA

45:

THE CURE OF SOULS

46:

BABY JESUS, TELL ME . . .

PART THREE

A Blade Fresh-Made from the Ashes of the Forge

47:

SOMETHING SUITABLE IN WHICH TO GO TO WAR

48:

JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT

49:

UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE

50:

THE GOOD SHEPHERD

51:

SCROUNGING

52:

MORPHIA DREAMS

53:

TAKEN AT A DISADVANTAGE

54:

IN WHICH I MEET A TURNIP

55:

VESTAL VIRGINS

56:

STINKING PAPIST

57:

DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT

58:

CASTRAMETATION

59:

A DISCOVERY IN THE RANKS

60:

QUAKERS AND QUARTERMASTERS

61:

A VISCOUS THREE-WAY

62:

THE MULE DISLIKES YOU

63:

AN ALTERNATE USE FOR A PENIS SYRINGE

64:

THREE HUNDRED AND ONE

65:

MOSQUITOES

66:

WAR PAINT

67:

REACHING FOR THINGS THAT AREN’T THERE

PART FOUR

Day of Battle

68:

GO OUT IN DARKNESS

69:

SPARROW-FART

70:

A SINGLE LOUSE

71:

FOLIE À TROIS

72:

MORASSES AND IMBROGLIOS

73:

PECULIAR BEHAVIOR OF A TENT

74:

THE SORT OF THING THAT WILL MAKE A MAN SWEAT AND TREMBLE

75:

THE CIDER ORCHARD

76:

THE DANGERS OF SURRENDER

77:

THE PRICE OF BURNT SIENNA

78:

IN THE WRONG PLACE AT THE WRONG TIME

79:

HIGH NOON

80:

PATER NOSTER

81:

AMONG THE TOMBSTONES

PART FIVE

Counting Noses

82:

EVEN PEOPLE WHO WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN DON’T WANT TO DIE TO GET THERE

83:

SUNDOWN

84:

NIGHTFALL

85:

LONG ROAD HOME

86:

IN WHICH ROSY-FINGERED DAWN SHOWS UP MOB-HANDED

87:

MOONRISE

88:

A WHIFF OF ROQUEFORT

89:

ONE DAY, COCK OF THE WALK—NEXT DAY, A FEATHER DUSTER

90:

IT’S A WISE CHILD WHO KNOWS HIS FATHER

91:

KEEPING SCORE

92:

I WILL NOT HAVE THEE BE ALONE

93:

THE HOUSE ON CHESTNUT STREET

94:

THE SENSE OF THE MEETING

A CODA IN THREE-TWO TIME

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