About the Book
The year is 1945 and Claire Beauchamp Randall, a former British combat nurse, is on holiday in Scotland with her husband, looking forward to becoming reacquainted after the war’s long separation. Like most practical women, Claire hardly expects her curiosity to get the better of her. But an ancient stone circle near her lodgings holds an eerie fascination, and when she innocently touches one of the giant boulders, she’s hurtled backward in time more than two hundred years, to 1743.
Alone where no lady should be alone, and far from the familiar comforts of her other life, Claire’s usual resourcefulness is tested to the limit. The merciless garrison captain so feared by others bears an uncanny resemblance to the husband she has just left behind. Her own odd circumstances expose her to accusations of witchcraft. And the strands of a political intrigue she doesn’t understand threaten to ensnare her at every turn.
But of all the perils her new life holds, none is more disquieting than her growing feelings for James Fraser, the gallant young Scot she is forced to marry for her own protection. Sworn by his wedding vows to keep her from harm, Jamie’s passion for Claire goes beyond duty. As she struggles with the memories of another lifetime, she is forced to make an agonizing and fateful choice, and learns ultimately that a man’s instinct to protect the woman he loves is as old as time.
My Review
Well, I have been hearing about this book for years and I finally found a copy at Goodwill about a month ago. I try to be frugal when it comes to buying books but it was only $1.99 so I really couldn’t pass it up. I started reading it a few weeks ago and even with the holidays looming I really struggled to put this one down! All the hype you’ve heard? Well deserved, at least in my opinion. I am searching for the entire series because I really wanted to begin reading the second book as soon as I finished this one.
I wasn’t sure how the author was going to pull off the whole “time travel” aspect of the book but it went off without a hitch. And the amount of emotions that are exuded from Claire as she thinks of her husband Frank in her “real” time, and her growing feeling for Jaime, her Highland warrior are conveyed as well as I’ve ever read. To be honest, I was glad that Frank wasn’t dwelled upon because Jaime sure sounded like the type of man that any woman would swoon over, even if he was stubborn and hard headed, he loved her just as hard as he did anything else in his life.
Pick this one up – it is almost guaranteed that you won’t be disappointed. I don’t usually rate my books but think I may start this in 2010. But, this one would be a 5 star for sure.
Hope you all have had a Happy Holiday and here’s wishing you all a Happy New Year!
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I plan to start reading this book in the next week or so. Glad to see you recommend it!
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I am planning on reading Outlander in 2010 for the Chunkster challenge. One of my sisters-in-law has been trying to get me to read the series for about 4 years. =)
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Hi Tracee great review and I am so glad that you loved the book so much. It truly is one of those that once you start you can't stopped and your hooked.
Awesome job on already finishing the first one and getting your first badge! YAY!!!!! You know you are the first one in the challenge to do so as well! So double congrats to you hon! 
I really struggled writing any kind of review because what do you say? Just fantastic and I can't wait to read the others!