Here is the story that started it all. In it, we meet two remarkable characters, Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser. The novel is full of passion and historical interest, and combines breathtaking adventure with a love story that spans the ages.
The year is 1945 and Claire Randall, a former army nurse, has just returned from the war to reunite with her husband and embark on a second honeymoon. However, while exploring one of the ancient stone ruins that are scattered throughout the British Isles, he touches one of the menhirs. Suddenly she is Sassenach - a foreigner - in a Scotland torn by war and clan raids in the borderlands, all in the years of the Lord... 1743.
Claire is catapulted back in time by forces she doesn't understand. He finds himself in the middle of the intrigues of yeomen and spies. Some of them may be after her life and others for her heart. It is here that she meets James Fraser, a gallant Scottish warrior, who envelops her with a love so boundless that Claire will have to decide between loyalty and desire; between two completely different men; between two lives that cannot be combined with each other.