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#1 BESTSELLER NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES

Twenty years ago, Diana Gabaldon swept readers into her mesmerizing world brimming with history, romance, and adventure. In celebration of the series that has captured the heart of millions, here is a special 20th anniversary edition of the novel that started it allincluding a new essay, a new map, a CD with the musical, and more.

OUTLANDER

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenachan outlanderin a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desireand between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Praise for Diana Gabaldons Outlander novels

Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading. on

History comes deliciously alive on the page.New York

Gabaldon is a born storyteller. . . . The pages practically turn themselves.on

Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer.on

Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail.on

A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries].CNN, on

The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters. on

Features all the passion and swashbuckling that fans of this historical fantasy series have come to expect.on