But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past.or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history.and to save their lives.
Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the stone circle and a terrifying leap into the unknown. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in frontier America. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became legend-a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past-or the grave. It began in Scotland, at an ancient stone circle. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as shocking as the events that gave it birth: the secret of an ancient circle of standing stones, the secret of a love that transcends centuries, and the truth of a man named Jamie Fraser-a Highland warrior whose gallantry once drew the young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his.Ĭlaire’s spellbinding journey continues through the intrigue-ridden French court and the menace of Jacobite plots, to the Highlands of Scotland, through war and death in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the mysteries of Scotland’s mist-shrouded Highlands.
Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful sequel to Outlander.įor twenty years, Claire Randall has kept her secrets. With her classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters-Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser-delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. 1743.Ĭlaire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an “outlander”-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. Her New York Timesbestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldon’s work.
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