The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon

The dazzling fifth volume of Diana Gabaldon's extraordinary Outlander saga, featuring 18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 20th-century time-traveling wife, Claire Randall.

The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser's wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift
of dreadful prophecy-a time-traveler's certain knowledge.

Born in the year of Our
Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World
War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through
a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English
lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time-1743-when the only English in
Scotland were the officers and men of King George's army.

Now wife, mother, and
surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by
choice, linked by love to her only anchor-Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future
has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming
revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years
ahead-or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes....

Grand,
sweeping, utterly unforgettable, The Fiery Cross is riveting entertainment,
a vibrant tapestry of history and human drama.


From the Hardcover edition.