NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon's acclaimed Outlander saga, the basis for the Starz original series--season 8 coming in March 2026!

"A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]."--CNN

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.

Review Citations:

• Library Journal Prepub Alert 06/15/2001 pg. 54 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Booklist 08/01/2001 pg. 2054 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Booklist 11/15/2001 pg. 522 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• People Weekly 12/24/2001 pg. 42 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Romantic Times 01/01/2002 pg. 33 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 01/01/2002 pg. 152 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Booksense '76 Jan/Feb 2002 01/01/2002 pg. 1 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Library Journal 06/15/2001 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Wilson Fiction Catalog 04/11/2019 (EAN 9780385315272, Hardcover)
• Ingram Paperback Advance 09/01/2005 pg. 42 (EAN 9780440221661, Mass Market Paperbound)
• Entertainment Weekly 08/15/2014 pg. 72 (EAN 9780440221661, Mass Market Paperbound)

About the Author

Diana Gabaldon is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the wildly popular Outlander novels-- Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voy­ager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes (for which she won a Quill Award and the Corine International Book Prize), An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood, and Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone--as well as the related Lord John Grey books, Lord John and the Private Matter, Lord John and the Brotherhood of the Blade, Lord John and the Hand of Devils, and The Scottish Prisoner; a collection of novellas, Seven Stones to Stand or Fall; three works of nonfiction, "I Give You My Body . . ." and The Outlandish Com­panion, Volumes 1 and 2; the Outlander graphic novel The Exile; and The Official Outlander Coloring Book. She lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, with her husband.