From the author of Outlander... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland… For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his .... Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves...

出自《異鄉人》系列作者之手，帶領讀者再次感受、重回十八世紀蘇格蘭的故事與戰爭的激情！克萊兒‧藍鐸守著自己的秘密二十年了，而今她帶著長大成人的女兒一起回到蘇格蘭高地。克萊兒計畫公開事情的始末：有關古老立石的秘密、一段穿越時空的愛情及吸引克萊兒離開家園、置身險境的英勇蘇格蘭高地戰士──傑米‧佛瑞哲。如今，克萊兒那美麗且有一頭漂亮棕髮的女兒──布麗安娜，克萊兒，渴望了解自己的身世。克萊兒引人入勝的自我發現之旅也在書中同時展開，包括在阿諛我詐的巴黎宮廷中、反抗蘇格蘭高地的叛亂、及不顧一切地拯救她心愛的孩子與男人……