CLAIRE RANDALL IS LEADING A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE HAS A HUSBAND IN ONE CENTURY
- & A LOVER IN ANOTHER... In 1945 Claire Randall is back from the war & reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon in Scotl&. Innocently she walks through a stone circle in the Highlands & finds herself in a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Suddenly she is a Sassenach an outlander in a country torn by war & 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 & the carnage of Culloden is looming. Marooned amid the passion & violence the superstition the shifting allegiances & the fervent loyalties Claire is in danger from Jacobites & Redcoats
- & from the shock of her own desire for James Fraser a gallant & courageous young Scots warrior. Jamie shows her a passion so fierce & a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity & desire & between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.