BOOKS
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Synopses'
of the Epic
Historical Novels in the
OUTLANDER SERIES
by
DIANA GABALDON
"a
wonderful gift to the world of literature"
"a sensual
masterpiece"
- "compulsively
readable .... triumphant ...
- a superior writer of
historical romance"
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Diana
lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with her husband and three
children and works on finishing the "Outlander"
series.
Many
readers say that it was word of mouth that introduced
them to Diana Gabaldon and her hero and heroine, Jamie
and Claire, and that might be true but there's no
mistaking her outstanding success now.
I
believe that anyone who loves a good story and reads the
"Outlander" series, will love it as much as I
do.
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.............a small circle, standing
stones on the crest of a steep green hill. The name of
the hill is Craigh na Dun; the fairies' hill. Some say
the hill is enchanted, others say it is cursed. Both are
right. But no one knows the function or the purpose of
the stones.
Except
Claire Beachamp Randall Fraser........
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Millions of people
around the world have fallen in love with Diana
Gabaldon's critically acclaimed series of novels
CROSS STITCH (in USA is titled Outlander),
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER, VOYAGER and DRUMS
OF AUTUMN as she has unfolded her
compelling story of Claire Randall who
accidentally stepped through a magical stone that took
her back in time two hundred years to 1743 and into the
arms of Jamie Fraser.
Her readers have been absolutely
enthralled with this epic saga of time travel, adventure
and love everlasting and eagerly await her works in
progress as the saga continues with THE FIERY
CROSS and KING, FAREWELL.
Diana has recently released a
Comprehensive Companian Guide to Her Novels - THROUGH
THE STONES, which presents the full story
behind the stories.
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| CROSS STITCH A lively time- travel romance set in
18th-century Scotland.
At the end of World War II Claire
Beauchamp Randall, a British Red Cross nurse and her
historian husband, Frank, have gone to Scotland to try to
resume their married life where it left off six years
before.
Their diligent attempts to have a baby
are abruptly halted when Claire discovers an ancient
stone circle on a nearby hilltop, slips between two
mysterious- looking boulders, and is transported to the
year 1743. Stumbling down a hillside, disoriented and
confused, Claire is discovered by Jonathan ``Black Jack''
Randall, an evil English officer who happens to be her
husband's direct ancestor bearing a striking resemblance
to him. Randall notes Claire's revealing 1940's summer
dress, assumes she is a whore, and attempts to rape her,
whereupon she is rescued by the fierce MacKenzie clan,
who take her to their castle and confine her there.
Claire adjusts to her changed circumstances with amazing
ease, using her nursing experience to tend to her hosts'
illnesses while she impatiently awaits a chance to return
to the circle of stones.
Before she can get away, circumstances
force her into a marriage with James Fraser, a Scottish
renegade from English justice and Jonathan Randall's
archenemy. Young Jamie's good looks, passion, and
virility soon redirect Claire's energies to defending her
stalwart new husband against her former mate's evil
clone, and the fierce, courageous but historically doomed
Scottish clans against the course of destiny itself.
Great fun .....enthralling and
fantastic adventures, romance, sex ........perfect escape
reading!
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DRAGONFLY
IN AMBER
The second in this
series.........
For twenty years Claire
Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning
with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic
mist-shrouded hills. 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 ...about
a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...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 ....
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 ...in a race to thwart a doomed
Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save
both the child and the man she loves....
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VOYAGER
Two centuries ago, the gallant
renegade Jamie Fraser sent Claire back to her own time, pregnant
with his child, believing he would be killed in the bloody Battle
of Culloden in 1746.
ClaireClaire makes a new life for
herself, training to become a doctor and raising her daughter
Brianna. But the passage of two decades does little to dim the
memory of Jamie or the life they once shared; and the constant
presence of Brianna, with her father's brilliant red hair and
well-loved features, is a painful reminder of the past.
Now their daughter has grown up
and Claire discovers that Jamie survived Culloden. Dare she risk
another trip through the stones, a trip that could prove fatal?
Will she even be able to find Jamie? How can she leave behind her
beloved daughter, knowing all too well they may never see each
other again?
Drawn back across the chasm of
time she seeks once more the man she could never forget, the
destiny she cannot ignore.
DRUMS
OF AUTUMN
Cast ashore in the New World, the
Frasers intend to join the exiled Scottish Highlanders and start
a new life away from the violence and uncertainty of a divided
Scotland. Jamie is tired of conflict and, with his beloved Claire
once more at his side, seeks refuge in the mountains - ever a
sanctuary. But they arrive on the eve of the American War of
Independence and become unwittingly involved in its turbulent
events. It seems as if they will once more be denied a chance to
find peace as they are caught up in the plight of the Iroquois
and Indian tribes, who, like the Highlanders, are outsiders in
their own land.
It is only when Brianna, safe in
the future, decides to cross into the past in search of the
father she has never seen, that Jamie learns again what he has
always known: neither innocence nor isolation is a shield, and
love is the only thing worth fighting for.
THROUGH
THE STONES - The
Comprehensive Companion Guide to the Outlander Series Novels.
- A full synopsis of each of the novels in
the series
- A complete listing of the characters and
where they came from, including family trees and
genealogical notes
- A comprehensive glossary and pronunciation
guide to Gaelic terms
- Expansive details into the research
carried out for the series, including notes on
researching botanical medicine
- Frequently asked questions to the author,
and her answers
- An annotated bibliography
- PLUS extracts from her
future novels, THE FIERY CROSS
and KING, FAREWELL.
I
have read the Outlander Series twice and have found it to be a
wonderful emotional reading experience which held me spellbound
from beginning to end of every episode. Ms Gabaldon with her rare
gift of 3 dimensional story telling has the amazing and brilliant
ability to make her characters seem so real, that I somehow felt
a special bond with Jamie and Claire as she took me deep into the
pages I was reading. I could see and feel what was going on and
Diana's descriptive methods of setting each scene gave me such
vivid images of Edinburgh's narrow cobble-stone streets that long
after putting her books down I was left daydreaming, imagining I
was right there walking along those cobblestones and, later,
seriously wondering what if................??
Diana
is a phenomenal writer who speaks directly to my heart and sense
of adventure! Never has an author taken me to such heights.
A
truly remarkable, well-researched series of novels which I
thoroughly recommend, but suggest that you buy, not borrow them
as you will want to re-read them.....over and over.....and enjoy
and treasure them forever.
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