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5. Savages

Claire's medical expertise proves invaluable, but she begins to fear for her life when tragedy strikes her patients' household; Jamie and Young Ian travel to a nearby town to recruit settlers for Fraser's Ridge.

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Claire delivers Petronella Mueller's baby, but Petronella, her baby, and her brother-in-law soon die of the measles. Believing the Cherokee cursed him, a distraught Gerhard Mueller scalps the healer Adawehi, Claire's friend, in revenge. The Indians retaliate, killing Gerhard and his wife and burning their house. Meanwhile, Jamie is reunited with Murtagh, who is now a blacksmith in a nearby town. In 1971, Roger tracks Brianna to Inverness, where she has gone through the standing stones of Craig Na Dunn to warn her parents of their imminent destiny.

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