The Exile (edit title/settings)

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• Murtagh (aka Murtagh Fitzgibbons Fraser): The story's protagonist. Loyal member of Clan MacKenzie/Fraser; sworn to protect Jamie since he was a baby.
• Jamie Fraser (aka James Alexander Malcolm MacKenzie Fraser): Claire's husband in the 18th century. A strapping young Scottish redhead with a complicated past and a disarming sense of humor. Jamie is intelligent, principled, and by 18th century standards, educated and worldly.
• Claire Fraser (aka Claire Beauchamp Randall Fraser): A nurse in WWII who finds herself in the Scottish Highlands circa the mid-18th century. In the 20th century, she was married to Frank Randall, but in the 18th century, she marries Jamie Fraser. Claire is a gifted natural physician, and her personality is warm, practical, and independent.
• Jonathan Randall: The primary villain of the story. He is Frank's ancestor and a British army officer. He is also known as "Black Jack." According to Jamie Fraser, the black refers to the colour of his soul. "...and a bloody, filthy, nasty pervert he was!"
• Frank Randall: Claire's husband in the 1940s; a history professor with a deep interest in his genealogy and heritage.
• Colum MacKenzie: he Laird of the MacKenzie clan. He is also Jamie's maternal uncle, and he shelters Jamie and Claire from the English threat. He suffers from Toulouse-Lautrec Syndrome.
• Dougal MacKenzie: Colum's brother, who serves as the literal and figurative "body" of the pair, since Colum's health meant he is unable to lead the clan into battle. A Jacobite; biological father of Colum's son, Hamish; took Jamie on as a foster son for a year as a teen; has four daughters. He also fathered another son with Geillis Duncan.
• Geillis/Geilie Duncan: Wife of the procurator fiscal; a time-traveler from the 1960s; thought to be a witch; has knowledge of herbs and plants. Mother of Dougal MacKenzie's son and murdered her husband, Arthur Duncan.
• Laoghaire MacKenzie: Young girl of 16 with her eye on Jamie.
• Ned Gowan: Lawyer from Edinburgh, works for Colum. Claire's lawyer at her trial for witchcraft.
• Kenneth: Add a description of this character.

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• “I'm no going to Lallybroch""Where then? Castle Leoch and your mother's kin? Might as well walk into a nest of vipers."”

  Jamie Fraser & Murtaugh

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• Castle Leoch

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1. Diana Gabaldon (Author)
2. Hoang Nguyen (Illustrator)

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• Library of Congress: PN6727.G26 E95 2010
• Dewey: 741.5973

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• Books › Science Fiction & Fantasy › Fantasy › Historical
• Books › Comics & Graphic Novels › Graphic Novels