While out on reconnaissance, Jerry develops engine trouble and crash lands somewhere in Northumbria.
Spitfire pilot Jerry MacKenzie is approached by MI6 (and Frank Randall no less) to help in the execution of a covert mission behind the Iron Curtain. Gabaldon chooses this point to offer a real account of events, just in time as Outlander fans are surely tearing their hair out with wonder, as the cliffhanger found no resolution within Written in My Own Heart's Blood. With Roger finally encountering Jerry in 1739, something must have happened related to the Stones, but the story is again not flushed out. What ever happened to Jerry MacKenzie, father of Roger, whose plane went down during the War effort? As Gabaldon mentions in the story's preface, discussion of Jerry opened in An Echo in the Bone, where Claire admitted that the story Roger knew was not entirely true. If you're an Outlander fan, you must read this story! Dolly launches wee Roger into the air towards his father. In a heart-wrenching scene, Jerry and Dolly lock eyes minutes before the stairs that Dolly is on crumble to dust. Jerry has to find Dolly and their small son, Roger.īut a bomb attack begins, and Jerry takes shelter in the nearby bomb shelter - the tube. Jerry somehow manages to find his way to London, only to discover that he's "returned" 2 years after he left and has been declared missing in action and presumed dead. They help him find his way back to the standing stone and back to his own time. Struggling to survive, he meets 2 rough-looking fellows, one of whom seems to know him well. Suddenly, Jerry finds himself in what seems like another place and time - which he is. But while practicing with the new cameras, Jerry's plan goes down in Northumberland, in a circle of standing stones.
Jerry is a Spitfire pilot, approached by none other than Frank Randall (yes, Claire's 1st husband) to fly on a photo mission in Poland. This is the story of Roger's parents, Jerry (Jeremy) and Dolly (Marjorie) Mackenzie and WWII. This little gem of a story ALWAYS brings tears to my eyes! It's such a lovely, bittersweet, unexpected story! Diana G fills it with characters we know or have only heard about - both past and present in the Outlander series. Now, in “A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows,” readers learn the truth.
Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat.īut in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story. In this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows (Outlander, #8.5), Diana Gabaldon
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