A passionate love that transcends the barrier of centuries...

Claire and Jamie leave Paris and the intrigues that are a daily occurrence at the Court of Louis XV and return to the Highlands. Everything suggests that they will finally find the much-desired peace there... until fate brings a horrific nightmare from the past into their path!

As the days pass, the effort to restore the Stuarts intensifies and the doomed second Jacobite Rebellion erupts. Now Claire and Jamie engage in a frantic race against time to prevent the massacre of the clans at Culloden.

The continuation of a multifaceted series that received rave reviews and thrilled millions of readers around the world. A captivating work, full of realistic descriptions, lyricism, and imagination.