<p class="ingestion featured-caption">"Outlander" stars Richard Rankin, Sam Heughan, Sophie Skelton, and Caitriona Balfe.Starz</p><ul class="summary-list"><li>Warning: There are major spoilers ahead for both the "Outlander" books and television series.</li><li>The second half of season seven — the show's penultimate season— will air sometime in 2024.</li></ul><p>2024 is here, and for "<a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-best-and-worst-changes-differences-diana-gabaldon-books-2023-10">Outlander</a>" fans that's good news. The first half of the sweeping time travel drama's seventh season aired last year, and it's been confirmed that the second half will <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-season-7-part-2-release-date-cast-plot-details-2023-8">land on our screens sometime this year</a>.</p><p>Excitingly, that could mean fans of the show have just a matter of weeks or months until they catch up with Scottish warrior Jamie (<a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-sam-heughan-richard-madden-snub-hurt-2022-10">Sam Heughan</a>) and his time-hopping wife Claire (<a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-caitriona-balfe-claire-jamie-sam-heughan-vanity-fair-2022-1">Caitríona Balfe</a>), whom audiences saw <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-season-7-midseason-finale-interview-producer-maril-davis-2023-8">return to Scotland in the midseason finale.</a></p><p>As for what the rest of season seven will entail, it's been confirmed that the episodes will follow the events of the seventh and eighth <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-diana-gabaldon-books-reading-order">"Outlander" novels by Diana Gabaldon.</a></p><p>Although previous seasons of the Starz drama adapted a single book, season seven will end up straddling three books as a result of the show's shortened, COVID-affected sixth season. The first eight episodes covered events from the sixth "Outlander" installment, "<a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=5bd9cbfcf4aee7097b0bd39a63687b4a67ffa45a6dbdaeee5e55cafed985f21d&postID=6579cc90b5ceb3ceac886d63&postSlug=outlander-season-7-part-2-plot-predictions-diana-gabaldon-books-2023-12&site=bi&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FBreath-Snow-Ashes-Outlander%2Fdp%2F0440225809">A Breath of Snow and Ashes</a>," as well as some of the events of the seventh book, "<a target="_blank" class href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=f3a7f6744ac074219896c4f076813ca02c9603f1b254003de6957418ccde5413&postID=6579cc90b5ceb3ceac886d63&postSlug=outlander-season-7-part-2-plot-predictions-diana-gabaldon-books-2023-12&site=bi&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FEcho-Bone-Novel-Outlander%2Fdp%2F0440245680">An Echo in the Bone</a>."</p><p>Speaking to <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-season-7-part-2-release-date-cast-plot-details-2023-8">Business Insider</a> earlier this year, executive producer Maril Davis confirmed that the second part of season seven will wrap up the events of "An Echo in the Bone" before launching into the action of the eighth book, "<a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=ef7d353849624638090ac05905c45ac97f55bced62bc0f419b3f98415733998a&postID=6579cc90b5ceb3ceac886d63&postSlug=outlander-season-7-part-2-plot-predictions-diana-gabaldon-books-2023-12&site=bi&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWritten-Hearts-Blood-Gabaldon-2015-04-23%2Fdp%2FB017MYEBDS">Written in My Own Heart's Blood</a>."</p><p>That will allow the writers to dedicate the show's eighth and final season to Gabaldon's latest book in the series, "<a target="_blank" class href="https://affiliate.insider.com?h=5590cb1d469742cdb8a1938d97142445406f17652a8c879d30d4f8ab37284fa5&postID=6579cc90b5ceb3ceac886d63&postSlug=outlander-season-7-part-2-plot-predictions-diana-gabaldon-books-2023-12&site=bi&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FTell-Bees-That-Gone-Outlander%2Fdp%2F1101885688">Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone</a>" (there is <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.insider.com/outlander-book-10-diana-gabaldon-plot-jamie-ghost-release-details-2023-8">another book in the works</a>, but it's unlikely that it will be published before the show ends).</p><p>Keep reading for details about what viewers could see happen, based on the events of these books.</p>