Claire is leading a double life. She has a husband in one century and a lover in another. She walks through a stone circle in the Scottish highlands and into a violent skirmish taking place in 1743. Marooned amid the passion and violence, the superstition, the shifting allegiances and the fervent loyalties, Claire is in terrible danger from Jacobites and Redcoats, and from the shock of her own desire for a courageous renegade.