![]() ![]() It was two weeks yet to Hallowe'en, but the gremlins were already at work. So what really happened to Jerry MacKenzie and his wife, Marjorie (known to her husband as Dolly)? Read on. 'And there are circles of standing stones scattered all over Northumbria.' 'Jerry,' Roger said, his lips feeling numb. And he did mention the name of the pilot, because he thought Jeremiah rather an appropriately doomed sort of name.' A Spitfire had gone down, crashed-not shot down they thought it must have been an engine failure-in Northumbria, and while it hadn't burned, for a wonder, there was no sign of the pilot. But just before that, he wrote to me, and mentioned-just as casual chat, you know-that he'd run into something strange in the reports he was handling. After that, I often wouldn't hear anything for months. But during the War, I had letters from Frank-he wrote as often as he could, up until they recruited him into MI6. Whoever told your mother might have been mistaken she might have said something that the reverend misconstrued. 'Accounts get garbled, too, over time and distance. 'Of course things happen,' she said, as though able to read his thoughts. 'I don't know what happened to your father,' she said. Her hands wrapped his, small and hard and smelling of medicine. In Drums of Autumn, Roger tells his wife, Brianna, the moving story of his mother's death in the collapse of a Tube station during the bombing of London.īut in An Echo in the Bone, there is a poignant conversation in the moonlight between Claire and Roger, during which we encounter this little zinger: In Outlander, we learn that Roger was orphaned during World War II, and then adopted by his great-uncle, the Reverend Reginald Wakefield, who tells his friends, Claire and Frank Randall, that Roger's mother was killed in the Blitz, and that his father was a Spitfire pilot 'shot down over the Channel.' One such trail follows the story of Roger MacKenzie's parents. One of the interesting things you can do with a 'bulge' (i.e., one of the novellas or short stories in the Outlander universe) is to follow mysteries, hints, and loose ends from the main books of the series. Martin, published by Gallery Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., in 2010. ![]() This novella was originally published in Songs of Love and Death: All Original Tales of Star-Crossed Love, edited by George R. Published in the United States by Bantam Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.ĭell is a registered trademark of Random House, Inc., and the colophon is a trademark of Random House, Inc. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Lord John and the Hand of Devils (collected novellas)Ī Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows (novella)Ī Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows is a work of fiction. Lord John and the Haunted Soldier (novella) Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade (in chronological order) Lord John and the Hellfire Club (novella) ![]()
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