Recently widowed,Claire Randall,a succesful physician,returns to the Scottish Highlands to look up a Scottish historian she met twenty years earlier. But why has she really come back? And who is the father of her beautiful copper-haired daughter?
The questions asked by Claire lead her back towards a far,far distant past- back to the dangers of hardships of 1745 and to Jamie Fraser,passionate Scottish rebel and the love of her life.