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 to the dangers of his.

Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris of the Jacobite rebellion. Sweeping from the splendor of Paris's Court of Louis XV to the savage feuds of the Scottish Highlands in the 1740s, Diana Gabaldon weaves a tale of political intrigue, adventure, and heart-wrenching love as Claire and Jamie Fraser try desperately to prevent the doomed Jacobite Rising that will culminate at the Battle of Culloden.

With her classic novel Outlander, Diana Gabaldon introduced two unforgettable characters—Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser—delighting readers with a story of adventure and love that spanned two centuries. Now Gabaldon returns to that extraordinary time and place in this vivid, powerful sequel.