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Reader reviewed by Mairi

Claire and Frank Randall are Sassenachs, outlanders, to the Scottish people they stay on a short vacation with while getting to know eachother again now that Claire has returned from six years spent as an World War II army nurse. Despite the tensions this causes in their marriage they are not above a bit of touring, and Claire steps into an ancient stone circle. When she awakens she finds herself transported back in time more than two hundred years, to a time when hostile English soldiers scour the Scottish Highlands in search of suspisious activity.

I read one of the later books in this series, Drums of Autumn, over the summer, and though I thought it was a good book I was very confused because I did not know Claire's backstory. Now, months later, I have finally finished the first book and know how it was that a woman from 1945 came to be in eighteenth century Scotland. It was everything I expected, and more.

I have to say that this is probably a girl book- it has a distinct romancey flavor to it that I find it hard to imagine a guy enjoying- but, at six hundred pages, it's not for wimps either.