Outlander Author:Diana Gabaloon The year is 1945 and Claire Beauchamp Randall, a former british combat nurse, is on holiday in Scotland with her husband, looking forward to becoming reacquainted after the war's long separation. Like most pratical women, Claire hardly expects her curiosity to get the best of her. But an ancient stone circle near her lodgings holds an eerie fasc... more »ination, and when she innocently touches a corner of one of the giant boulders, she is hurtled backward in time more than two hundred years, to 1743.