EAN: 9780440221661

DIANA GABALDON - GEBRAUCHT THE FIERY CROSS (OUT...

The dazzling fifth volume of Diana Gabaldon's extraordinary Outlander saga  featuring
18th-century Scotsman James Fraser and his 20th-century time-traveling wife  Claire Randall.
The year is 1771  and war is coming. Jamie Fraser's wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to 
he must believe it  for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy-a time-traveler's certain
knowledge. Born in the year of Our Lord 1918  Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the
battlefields of World War II  and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she
walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander  an
English lady in a place where no lady should be  in a time-1743-when the only English in
Scotland were the officers and men of King George's army. Now wife  mother  and surgeon  Claire
is still an outlander  out of place  and out of time  but now  by choice  linked by love to her
only anchor-Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and
deliverance in the past  her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that
may light his way through the perilous years ahead-or ignite a conflagration that will leave
their lives in ashes.... Grand  sweeping  utterly unforgettable  The Fiery Cross is riveting
entertainment  a vibrant tapestry of history and human drama.

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