Voyager characters

Also known as James Fraser, Red Jamie

Appears from the start

A Highland laird in his mid-twenties, left wounded and half-conscious on the field at Culloden with a shattered leg and no wish to survive. He has spent two years trying to prevent the rising and has lost everything to it, including the wife he sent back through the standing stones. Stubborn, honourable, and quietly formidable even in ruin, he expects to be shot with the rest of the Jacobite wounded.

Also known as Black Jack Randall

Appears from the start

The English dragoon captain who tormented Jamie and Claire for years. He fought at Culloden and died there, and Jamie's last clear memory of the battle is of the two of them meeting on the field. His marriage to Mary Hawkins, made to give his dying brother's child a name, is what secures the family line that leads to Frank Randall.

Also known as Claire Fraser, Claire Beauchamp

First appears in chapter 3

Returned to 1948 through the stones and pregnant with Jamie's child, a woman with no way back and a husband waiting for her who has spent three years believing her lost. Practical and stubborn, she sets about building a life she did not choose, and in time trains as a physician in Boston. Twenty years later, in 1968, she is a surgeon, a widow, and the mother of a grown daughter.

First appears in chapter 3

Claire's first husband, a Cambridge historian who takes her back after her three-year disappearance and agrees to raise another man's child as his own. Decent, wounded, and proud, he sets conditions: the past is never discussed, and Claire never searches for Jamie Fraser again.

Also known as Janet Murray

First appears in chapter 4

Jamie's elder sister, who holds Lallybroch together through the years of occupation, redcoat searches, and near-starvation that follow Culloden. Sharp, unsentimental, and quietly ruthless in defence of her family, she manages an estate legally owned by a child and a brother the English are hunting.

Also known as Bree

First appears in chapter 7

Claire's daughter, twenty years old in 1968, tall and red-haired, an engineering student raised in Boston by Frank. She has recently learned the truth about her parentage and is struggling with it, torn between the father who brought her up and a man two centuries dead whom her mother will not stop looking for.

First appears in chapter 7

The young historian who first helped Claire trace the men of Lallybroch, now caught up in a much larger search: whether Jamie Fraser can be followed through twenty years of Scottish records. Methodical and patient, he works through prison rolls and ledgers while his interest in Brianna grows.

First appears in chapter 8

An English army officer, young, fair and small of stature, who takes up the governorship of Ardsmuir prison and finds among the Jacobite inmates a man he has met before under humiliating circumstances. Cultured, scrupulous, and lonely, he offers Jamie parole, conversation, and a friendship complicated by feelings he does not expect to have returned.

First appears in chapter 14

The elder daughter of the Dunsany family, at whose Lake District estate Jamie is placed as a paroled groom. Wilful, spoiled, and facing a marriage to a rich old man she detests, she discovers who her father's Scottish servant really is and uses it against him.

Also known as William, Ninth Earl of Ellesmere

First appears in chapter 16

A small boy raised as the heir to an English earldom, imperious, fearless, and devoted to the Scottish groom who teaches him to ride. Jamie is the only person he will obey, and the resemblance between them becomes harder to overlook as the boy grows.

First appears in chapter 25

The French orphan Jamie took off the Paris streets, now a grown man with one hand missing, living in Edinburgh and helping run Jamie's illicit business. Charming, capable, and wholly loyal, he handles the parts of the trade that need a light touch.

Also known as Ian Murray the younger

First appears in chapter 25

Jenny's fourteen-year-old son, gangling and rash, who has run away from Lallybroch to find his uncle in Edinburgh and is determined not to be sent home. He is inseparable from his enormous half-wolf dog, Rollo, and has an unerring instinct for being where the trouble is.

Also known as Yi Tien Cho

First appears in chapter 25

A small Chinese exile living rough in Edinburgh, a scholar and poet in his own country who now survives on Jamie's protection and a good deal of drink. Erudite, exasperating, and largely misunderstood by everyone around him, he has a story he has never been asked to tell.

First appears in chapter 29

A woman from Jamie's Highland past, once infatuated with him and no friend to Claire, now a widow with two daughters. What she has become to Jamie in the twenty years since Culloden is a fact Claire learns without warning.

First appears in chapter 34

Laoghaire's elder daughter, a blunt, self-possessed teenager who has decided what she wants from life and is not much troubled by other people's objections to it. She holds Claire responsible for wrecking her mother's marriage.

Also known as Mrs. Abernathy, Gillian Edgars

First appears in chapter 58

The Scottish herbalist Claire knew at Cranesmuir, who was condemned as a witch and whom Claire believed dead. She is alive, rich, and settled on a West Indies plantation, still pursuing the Jacobite obsession that took her through the stones in the first place, and still perfectly willing to use people up to get what she wants.