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Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone

Diana Gabaldon
Chapters (28)
  1. COVER
  2. About the Author
  3. Also available by Diana Gabaldon
  4. DEDICATION
  5. MAP
  6. FAMILY TREE
  7. Prologue
  8. Part One
  9. 1
  10. Part Two
  11. 11
  12. 21
  13. Part Three
  14. 31
  15. 45
  16. Part Four
  17. 59
  18. 71
  19. 86
  20. Part Five
  21. 107
  22. 126
  23. 141
  24. Author’s Notes
  25. Acknowledgments
  26. Find out where the journey begins …
  27. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING
  28. Footnotes

COVER

Penguin Random House

About the Author

DIANA GABALDON is the author of the international bestselling Outlander novels and Lord John Grey series.

She says that the Outlander series started by accident: ‘I decided to write a novel for practice in order to learn what it took to write a novel, and to decide whether I really wanted to do it for real. I did – and here we all are trying to decide what to call books that nobody can describe, but that fortunately most people seem to enjoy.’

And enjoy them they do – in their millions, all over the world. Published in 42 countries and 38 languages, in 2014 the Outlander novels were made into an acclaimed TV series starring Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser and Caitríona Balfe as Claire.

Diana lives with her husband and dogs in Scottsdale, Arizona. Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone is the ninth Outlander novel.

Keep in touch with Diana

@Writer_DG

AuthorDianaGabaldon

Also available by Diana Gabaldon

Fiction

OUTLANDER (PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS CROSS STITCH)

DRAGONFLY IN AMBER

VOYAGER

DRUMS OF AUTUMN

THE FIERY CROSS

A BREATH OF SNOW AND ASHES

AN ECHO IN THE BONE

WRITTEN IN MY OWN HEART’S BLOOD

SEVEN STONES TO STAND OR FALL

The Lord John Grey Series

LORD JOHN AND THE PRIVATE MATTER

LORD JOHN AND THE HAND OF DEVILS

LORD JOHN AND THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BLADE

Non-Fiction

THROUGH THE STONES

THE OUTLANDISH COMPANION

THE OFFICIAL OUTLANDER COLOURING BOOK

DEDICATION

This one is for Doug

True North

MAP

FAMILY TREE

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Prologue

YOU KNOW THAT SOMETHING is coming. Something—a specific, dire, and awful something—will happen. You envision it, you push it away. It rolls slowly, inexorably, back into your mind.

You make what preparation you can. Or you think you do, though your bones know the truth—there isn’t any way to sidestep, accommodate, lessen the impact. It will come, and you will be helpless before it.

You know these things.

And yet, somehow, you never think it will be today.

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Part One

A SWARM OF BEES IN THE CARCASS OF A LION

1

The Mackenzies Are Here

Fraser’s Ridge, Colony of North Carolina

June 17, 1779

THERE WAS A STONE under my right buttock, but I didn’t want to move. The tiny heartbeat under my fingers was soft and stubborn, the fleeting jolts life. The space between them was infinity, my connection to the dark sky and the rising flame.

“Move your arse a bit, Sassenach,” said a voice in my ear. “I need to scratch my nose and ye’re sitting on my hand.” Jamie twitched his fingers under me, and I moved, turning toward him as I shifted and resettled, keeping my hold on three-year-old Mandy, bonelessly asleep in my arms.