Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

About the Book

What if your future was the past?

1946, Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It’s a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage.

But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743, where the first person she meets is a British army officer - her husband’s six-times great-grandfather.

Unfortunately, Black Jack Randall is not the man his descendant is, and while trying to escape him, Claire falls into the hands of a gang of Scottish outlaws and finds herself a Sassenach - an outlander - in danger from both Jacobites and Redcoats.

Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes an urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives.

Editorial Reviews

“Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading.”—San Francisco Chronicle, on Outlander

“History comes deliciously alive on the page.”—New York Daily News, on Outlander

“Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer.”—Publishers Weekly, on Voyager

“Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail.”—The Cincinnati Post, on Drums of Autumn

About the Author

Diana Gabaldon

Diana Jean Gabaldon Watkins grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona, and is of Mexican-American and English descent. She has earned three degrees: a B.S. in Zoology, an M.S. in Marine Biology, and a Ph.D. in Ecology. She currently lives in Scottsdale, Arizona .