From the author of “Outlander.”.. a magnificent epic that once againsweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland…For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returningwith her grown daughter to Scotland’s majestic mist-shrouded hills. HereClaire 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 thattranscends the boundaries of time …and about James Fraser, a Scottish warriorwhose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century tothe dangers of his ….Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haireddaughter, Brianna, as Claire’s spellbinding journey of self-discovery continuesin the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart …in a race to thwart adoomed Highlands uprising …and in a desperate fight to save both the childand the man she loves….”A judicious blend of history and romance…proves that, regarding talent, Diana Gabaldon is light-years ahead of her romance-novelist colleagues.””Daily News” (New York)