Book description
CLAIRE RANDALL IS LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE HAS A HUSBAND IN ONE
CENTURY - AND A LOVER IN ANOTHER...
In 1945, Claire Randall is back from the war and reunited with her
husband on a second honeymoon in Scotland. Innocently she walks
through a stone circle in the Highlands, and finds herself in a
violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an
outlander, in a country torn by war and by clan feuds.
A wartime nurse, Claire can deal with the bloody wounds that face
her. But it is harder to deal with the knowledge that she is in
Jacobite Scotland and the carnage of Culloden is looming. Marooned
amid the passion and violence, the superstition, the shifting
allegiances and the fervent loyalties, Claire is in danger from
Jacobites and Redcoats - and from the shock of her own desire for
James Fraser, a gallant and courageous young Scots warrior. Jamie
shows her a passion so fierce and a love so absolute that Claire
becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire, and between two
vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.
Diana Gabaldon is the international bestselling author of five
previous historical novels - Cross Stitch, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager,
Drums of Autumn and The Fiery Cross, and one work of non-fiction,
Through the Stones. She lives with her family and a lot of other
assorted wildlife in Scottsdale, Arizona.
