The Fiery Cross - Diana Gabaldon

New York Times Bestseller - The fifth book in Diana Gabaldon s acclaimed Outlander saga the basis for the Starz original series. A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across centuries . - CNN 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.