It was late—or early, depending on one’s viewpoint, as Jamie and Claire rode towards Bargrennan. They travelled in silence, allowing Claire to reflect on what might happen if she ever found her way back to her time. Married to Jamie by coercion and dependent on him from necessity, she had undeniably grown undeniably fond of him. Linked at first by magic in 2006, then by circumstances in 1743, then by friendship, and finally by a startlingly deep bodily passion... Claire wondered if there was more between them than she realised.