NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon's
acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series.
"A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs
the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]."--CNN
The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser's wife tells him so.
Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of
dreadful prophecy--a time-traveler's certain knowledge.
Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a
nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace
found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the
Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a
place where no lady should be, in a time--1743--when the only English in
Scotland were the officers and men of King George's army.
Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of
place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only
anchor--Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both
danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming
revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the
perilous years ahead--or ignite a conflagration that will leave their
lives in ashes.
