Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s-among them disease, starvation, and an impending war-was indeed the safer choice for their family. Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it won’t be long until the war is on his doorstep. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hell’s teakettle. Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible. It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Fraser’s Ridge. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same. Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1746, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. The past may seem the safest place to be. #1 New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon returns with the newest novel in the epic Outlander series. For here, James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, 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. She is catapulted without warning into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life. Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire's destiny in soon inextricably intertwined with Clan MacKenzie and the forbidden Castle Leoch. Suddenly she is a Sassenach-an "outlander"-in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of our Lord.1743. In 1945, Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon-when she innocently touches a boulder in one of the ancient stone circles that dot the British Isles. She has a husband in one century, and a lover in another.
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