For a while I was caught up on the series, but I lost interest once the Frasers headed to America. The books were recommended to me while I was living in England, and a lucky thing, too, because had I taken one look at the Fabio-in-a-kilt-of-passion American paperback cover I would have refused to read it (note: the British version was called Cross Stitch and the cover had a less-than-sexy field of heather on it). Bonus: the heroine gets to have many, many rolls in the hay with a handsome hard-bodied Highlander. From clan warfare to herbal medicine to genealogy to British history to WWII, the books are packed with information (what little Gaelic I know started with these books). Gabaldon's sex-ridden, hugely researched, academically adventurous, time travel/sci-fi meets historical romance novels qualify as trash novels for lit nerds - they're absolutely a guilty pleasure. and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves. in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising. 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 court of Charles Stuart.

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. about a love that transcends the boundaries of time. 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. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland.įor twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets.

An alternate cover edition can be found here.įrom the author of Outlander.

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon