1. Outlander
In 1946, former combat nurse Claire Randall visits the Scottish Highlands with her husband and passes through a circle of standing stones into 1743. Stranded in a society of clan rivalries, British military pressure and Jacobite conspiracy, she is forced into marriage with the young Highlander…
2. Dragonfly in Amber
Claire returns to Scotland in 1968 to tell her daughter the truth about Jamie Fraser and the life she lived in the eighteenth century. Her account follows Claire and Jamie through the French court and into the Jacobite rising, where they attempt to prevent Charles Edward…
3. Voyager
After surviving the Battle of Culloden, Jamie Fraser endures imprisonment, hiding and years of separation from his family. In 1968, Claire discovers that he did not die and returns through the stones to find him in Edinburgh. Their reunion leads them through smuggling, political danger and…
4. Drums of Autumn
Claire and Jamie begin a new life in colonial North Carolina, where they establish Fraser’s Ridge on land granted by the Crown. In the twentieth century, their daughter Brianna discovers evidence that her parents may die in a fire and travels into the past to warn…
5. The Fiery Cross
In 1770, the Fraser family gathers with settlers and relatives as unrest spreads through the North Carolina backcountry. Governor William Tryon orders Jamie to raise a militia against the Regulators, placing him between his obligations to the Crown and his knowledge that revolution is approaching. Family…
6. A Breath of Snow and Ashes
Between 1772 and 1776, political division and private violence threaten the Fraser family as the American colonies move towards rebellion. Jamie must publicly serve the Crown while quietly preparing to support independence, and Claire’s medical work makes her both valuable and vulnerable within the backcountry community.…
7. An Echo in the Bone
In 1777, Jamie and Claire enter the American Revolutionary War while their relatives are scattered across both sides of the Atlantic. Their path takes them through the Saratoga campaign and towards British-occupied Philadelphia, where family ties cross military and political loyalties. In the twentieth century, Brianna…
8. Written in My Own Heart’s Blood
In 1778, Claire, Jamie and Lord John Grey face the consequences of mistaken death, an unexpected marriage and revelations about William Ransom’s parentage. The family is drawn into the Continental Army’s pursuit of the British from Philadelphia and the Battle of Monmouth, where Claire’s medical skills…
9. Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone
In 1779, Brianna and Roger return with their children to Fraser’s Ridge and reunite with Claire and Jamie. Their homecoming is shadowed by the expanding American Revolution, which divides neighbours and draws the family towards the fighting in the southern colonies. While Jamie prepares for renewed…