Upon returning to Castle Leoch, Claire continues acting as the official healer, and befriends Geillis Duncan, the wife of a local official, who shares a knowledge of medicine. However, she is captured by Randall's men, requiring Jamie to rescue her. Torn between her attachment to Jamie and the thought of Frank, Claire tries to return to Craigh na Dun.

To keep Claire from Randall, Dougal has her wed Jamie, which makes her a Scottish citizen. There is suspicion that she is perhaps an English spy. When chance again brings her to his attention, Captain Randall tells Dougal to bring Claire to him for questioning. Colum sends her with his brother, Dougal, to collect rents on the way he also solicits donations for the Jacobites, overseen by Ned Gowan, a lawyer from Edinburgh who is working for the Clan. Her medical skills eventually earn their respect but the clan chieftain, Colum MacKenzie, suspects her of being an English spy.

The highlanders of 1743 see Claire as a ' Sassenach', or 'Outlander', ignorant of Gaelic culture. The Scots do not believe her and take her to Castle Leoch, where Claire searches for a way to return to her own time.

She represents herself as an English widow who is traveling to France to see her family. The men identify themselves as members of Clan MacKenzie, and Claire eventually concludes that she has traveled into the past. As the Scots inexpertly attend their injured comrade Jamie, Claire uses her medical skill to set Jamie's dislocated shoulder. Before Captain Randall can attack her, he is knocked unconscious by a highlander who takes Claire to his clansmen. Investigating a buzzing noise near the stones, she touches one and faints upon waking, she encounters Frank's ancestor, Captain Jack Randall. Frank conducts research into his family history and Claire goes plant-gathering near standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun. In 1946, after working apart during the Second World War, former British Army nurse Claire Randall and her husband Frank Randall, a history professor, go on a second honeymoon to Inverness, Scotland. The first book won a Romance Writers of America's RITA Award in 1992. The television adaptation of the series premiered on Starz in the US on August 9, 2014.Ī mix of several genres, the series has elements of historical fiction, romance, adventure and traditional fantasy. It is the first novel in the Outlander series, with ten books planned. Initially set around the time of the Second World War, it focuses on nurse Claire Beauchamp, who travels through time to 18th-century Scotland, where she finds adventure and romance with the dashing Jamie Fraser. Outlander (published in the United Kingdom as Cross Stitch) is a historical fantasy novel by Diana Gabaldon first published in 1991.

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