The year is 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honey-moon – when she innocantly touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach – an «outlander» – in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord…1743.
Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may treaten her life…and shatter and heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire…and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.