Jocasta Cameron

Jocasta Cameron is Jamie Fraser's aunt, mistress of River Run, a wealthy North Carolina plantation she runs with iron composure despite having gone blind. Widowed and shrewd, she welcomes her long-lost nephew's family with warmth that carries an unmistakable edge of calculation, a woman used to getting what she wants through charm.

Maria Doyle Kennedy plays blindness as a source of authority rather than vulnerability, reading a room by voice and silence while everyone underestimates her. Jocasta's genteel hospitality never quite hides the will beneath it, and the writing lets her be genuinely affectionate and quietly ruthless in the same breath, which keeps every scene with her unsettled.