While on vacation in Scotland, Clare touches an ancient stone circle and is hurled back in time 200 years, to 1743.

1778: France declares war on Great Britain, the British army leaves Philadelphia, and George Washington’s troops leave Valley Forge in pursuit. At this moment, Jamie Fraser returns from a presumed watery grave to discover that his best friend has married his wife, his illegitimate son has discovered (to his horror) who his father really is, and his beloved nephew, Ian, wants to marry a Quaker. Meanwhile, Jamie’s wife, Claire, and his sister, Jenny,...

How can love and anguish live in the same heart? Time traveler Claire Randall, of the 20th century, loves Jamie Fraser, of the 18th. The year is 1771. Claire knows that war is coming to Scotland. Jamie knows she tells the truth. Jamie Fraser stands in the shadow of the fiery cross--a standard that leads nowhere but to the bloody brink of war.

"Recien acabada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una joven pareja se reune por fin para pasar sus vacaciones en Escocia. Una tarde, cuando pasea sola por la pradera, Claire se acerca a un circulo de piedras antiquisimas y cae de pronto en un extrano trance. Al volver en si se encuentra con un panorama desconcertante: el mundo moderno ha desaparecido, ahora la rodea la Escocia de 1743, con sus clanes beligerantes y supersticiosos, hombres y mujeres rudos,...

For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones, about a love that transcends the boundaries of time, and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century...