For a full twenty years Claire Randall kept her secret. But now she returns to Scotland, the land of majestic mountains shrouded in mist. She wants to discover the truth, as astonishing as the events that gave rise to it. The truth about the mystery of the ancient stone circle capable of throwing a person many years back in time, and about James Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scottish warrior whose courage and love protected Claire from the dangers of that turbulent era. And her grown daughter, the copper-haired Brianna, is about to learn the truth about her real father.