Roger takes Brianna to the Culloden visitor center where she remarks that a mannequin of the Duke of Cumberland has a little piggy face. Roger tells her the Duke was called Butcher Billy, and the people of the Highlands are not very fond of him. He tells her that the reverend was his mother’s uncle and adopted him when his parents were killed in the war. He says his last name is MacKenzie and that quite a few of his relatives lie under the clan stone on Culloden Field.

Roger escorts Brianna around the battle site, explaining various things and giving her a history of the place. When he drives her back to their bread and breakfast, she thanks him and offers to help him with the grubby task of cleaning out the Reverend’s papers and Roger eagerly agrees. The next day, while Claire is at the library, they tackle the garage and find a set of the Reverend’s journals. They search for parish registers and records regarding the villages within the area of Broch Tuarach. When Brianna is startled by a mouse, Roger amuses her with rat satires, short rhymes warning away rodents. They also find a box ily tree, which shows the date he married Claire in 1937. They also find a letter of commission signed by the king for Jonathan Randall.

The next day, Roger takes Brianna and Claire to St. Kilda, a small village near Broch Tuarach. He brings them to the church there, which has become a little run down since the Reverend died. Roger and Bree amuse themselves with some of the more colorful inscriptions on the gravestones, while Claire wanders about looking for plants. Brianna finds the gravestone for Jonathan Randall and waves Claire over. She’s shocked angrily when she sees it. Brianna expected her to be excited to see the stone, not angry. Claire insists they go see the inside of the church while she sits in the shade.

Inside the church, Roger and Brianna kiss for the first time and then hear a scream from outside. They rush outside to find Claire kneeling on the ground in front of a gravestone. The stone is inscribed with Jamie’s full name with the words “Beloved husband of Claire.” Claire tells them that he was her husband and Brianna’s father.

She tells them she knows how it sounds, but it’s the truth and there’s nothing she can do about it

Back at the manse, Brianna and Roger payday loans in AK try to calm Claire down. She’s furious because Jamie’s remains are not supposed to be there since he died miles away. She tells them about the stones at Craigh na Dun where she went back in time to 1743 and met Jonathan Randall. Brianna asks what he was like, and Claire tells him he was a pervert. She tells them she ie Fraser as a way to protect her from Randall. She says she loved Frank, but she had fallen in love with Jamie and couldn’t leave him.

She says Brianna looks almost exactly like her grandmother

She tells them about Jamie’s arrest and conviction and how she rescued him from Wentworth Prison. She describes how she took him to the Abbey in France and how she healed his body and soul. Brianna doesn’t believe her and thinks Claire is mixing up the men of Culloden under the strain of Frank’s death. Brianna insists that Frank was her father. Claire tells her that she promised Frank twenty years ago when Brianna was born to let her believe he was her father while he lived. Claire says she honored that promise, but now that he’s dead, Brianna needs to know the truth. She says if she doesn’t believe her, then go to the National Gallery in London as there is a portrait there of her grandmother Ellen Fraser wearing the pearls Claire is wearing.