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 find the truth—just as astonishing as the events that brought it about. The truth about the mystery of an ancient stone circle capable of sending a person many years into the past, and about James Fraser, an 18th-century Scottish warrior whose courage and love protected Claire from the dangers of that turbulent era. And her grown daughter, copper-haired Brianna, will have to learn the truth about her real father.