Obsessed (Wild Mountain Scots, #1)

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Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (954 download)

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Download or read book Obsessed (Wild Mountain Scots, #1) written by Jolie Vines and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-19 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's the leader of the mountain rescue service. She might just need saving. Lochie For too long, I've been alone. Just me and my daughter. Keeping her safe is everything, so taking a job in the remote Scottish Highlands suits us fine. I shouldn't need anything more. Yet I'm beyond distracted by a lass. Smart, beautiful, and living right next door, Cait McRae makes it clear she's not interested. Every sly glance tells another story. It's all I can do not to throw her over my shoulder and take her home. Cait might claim she only wants to explore the physical, but I know she's wrong. She's mine. If the people pursuing us both don't destroy what we've found. Cait I always knew I was different. No one ever caught my eye. Until a huge, scowling man moves in next door. He's the new head of the mountain rescue service, and a single dad to a sweet little girl. Turns out, I'm a late bloomer, as all I can think about is Lochie. But someone else wants me. A series of strange events point to one conclusion. I have a stalker, and the danger I'm in is only just starting. -- The Wild Mountain Scots series follows on from the Wild Scots series with more of your favourite McRaes. Meet the brooding, tough, protective men of the mountain rescue and the beautiful women who tame their hearts. Download Obsessed now!

Hero (Marry the Scot, #3)

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ISBN 13 : 9781739684341
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (843 download)

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Download or read book Hero (Marry the Scot, #3) written by Jolie Vines and published by . This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sit tight, lass. I'll find ye." Ella I always pictured my brother's best friend to be impressive--after all, he's a military helicopter pilot whose job is to save people. Then he appears in front of me and my assumptions fly out of the window. Tattoos on muscles. Grey eyes and a sexy smirk. A Scottish accent to die for. And what's more? He's here to rescue me from my uncle's clutches. My poor sheltered heart stands no chance. Gordain At seventeen, there's no way this lass is right for me. She's my best friend's sister and five years younger than me. But she's gorgeous. Confident. A musician who plays a violin like it's a part of her. I've been shot down in a war zone but nothing makes my heart beat so fast as Ella. Then she gets the news that in order to inherit, she needs to be wed. How can I fake-marry someone I truly care about?

Born Fighting

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0767922956
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (679 download)

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Download or read book Born Fighting written by Jim Webb and published by Crown. This book was released on 2005-10-11 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his first work of nonfiction, bestselling novelist James Webb tells the epic story of the Scots-Irish, a people whose lives and worldview were dictated by resistance, conflict, and struggle, and who, in turn, profoundly influenced the social, political, and cultural landscape of America from its beginnings through the present day. More than 27 million Americans today can trace their lineage to the Scots, whose bloodline was stained by centuries of continuous warfare along the border between England and Scotland, and later in the bitter settlements of England’s Ulster Plantation in Northern Ireland. Between 250,000 and 400,000 Scots-Irish migrated to America in the eighteenth century, traveling in groups of families and bringing with them not only long experience as rebels and outcasts but also unparalleled skills as frontiersmen and guerrilla fighters. Their cultural identity reflected acute individualism, dislike of aristocracy and a military tradition, and, over time, the Scots-Irish defined the attitudes and values of the military, of working class America, and even of the peculiarly populist form of American democracy itself. Born Fighting is the first book to chronicle the full journey of this remarkable cultural group, and the profound, but unrecognized, role it has played in the shaping of America. Written with the storytelling verve that has earned his works such acclaim as “captivating . . . unforgettable” (the Wall Street Journal on Lost Soliders), Scots-Irishman James Webb, Vietnam combat veteran and former Naval Secretary, traces the history of his people, beginning nearly two thousand years ago at Hadrian’s Wall, when the nation of Scotland was formed north of the Wall through armed conflict in contrast to England’s formation to the south through commerce and trade. Webb recounts the Scots’ odyssey—their clashes with the English in Scotland and then in Ulster, their retreat from one war-ravaged land to another. Through engrossing chronicles of the challenges the Scots-Irish faced, Webb vividly portrays how they developed the qualities that helped settle the American frontier and define the American character. Born Fighting shows that the Scots-Irish were 40 percent of the Revolutionary War army; they included the pioneers Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston; they were the writers Edgar Allan Poe and Mark Twain; and they have given America numerous great military leaders, including Stonewall Jackson, Ulysses S. Grant, Audie Murphy, and George S. Patton, as well as most of the soldiers of the Confederacy (only 5 percent of whom owned slaves, and who fought against what they viewed as an invading army). It illustrates how the Scots-Irish redefined American politics, creating the populist movement and giving the country a dozen presidents, including Andrew Jackson, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. And it explores how the Scots-Irish culture of isolation, hard luck, stubbornness, and mistrust of the nation’s elite formed and still dominates blue-collar America, the military services, the Bible Belt, and country music. Both a distinguished work of cultural history and a human drama that speaks straight to the heart of contemporary America, Born Fighting reintroduces America to its most powerful, patriotic, and individualistic cultural group—one too often ignored or taken for granted.

Albion's Seed

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780199743698
Total Pages : 972 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (436 download)

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Book Synopsis Albion's Seed by : David Hackett Fischer

Download or read book Albion's Seed written by David Hackett Fischer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-14 with total page 972 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book is the first volume in a projected cultural history of the United States, from the earliest English settlements to our own time. It is a history of American folkways as they have changed through time, and it argues a thesis about the importance for the United States of having been British in its cultural origins. While most people in the United States today have no British ancestors, they have assimilated regional cultures which were created by British colonists, even while preserving ethnic identities at the same time. In this sense, nearly all Americans are "Albion's Seed," no matter what their ethnicity may be. The concluding section of this remarkable book explores the ways that regional cultures have continued to dominate national politics from 1789 to 1988, and still help to shape attitudes toward education, government, gender, and violence, on which differences between American regions are greater than between European nations.

The Farthest Shore

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Publisher : Vertebrate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1839810211
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Farthest Shore by : Alex Roddie

Download or read book The Farthest Shore written by Alex Roddie and published by Vertebrate Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February 2019, award-winning writer Alex Roddie left his online life behind when he set out to walk 300 miles through the Scottish Highlands, seeking solitude and answers. In leaving the chaos of the internet behind for a month, he hoped to learn how it was truly affecting him – or if he should look elsewhere for the causes of his anxiety. The Farthest Shore is the story of Alex's solo trek along the remote Cape Wrath Trail. As he journeyed through a vanishing winter, Alex found answers to his questions, learnt the nature of true silence, and discovered frightening evidence of the threats faced by Scotland's wild mountain landscape.

That Time of Year

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1951627709
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis That Time of Year by : Garrison Keillor

Download or read book That Time of Year written by Garrison Keillor and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the warmth and humor we've come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story. In That Time of Year, Garrison Keillor looks back on his life and recounts how a Brethren boy with writerly ambitions grew up in a small town on the Mississippi in the 1950s and, seeing three good friends die young, turned to comedy and radio. Through a series of unreasonable lucky breaks, he founded A Prairie Home Companion and put himself in line for a good life, including mistakes, regrets, and a few medical adventures. PHC lasted forty-two years, 1,557 shows, and enjoyed the freedom to do as it pleased for three or four million listeners every Saturday at 5 p.m. Central. He got to sing with Emmylou Harris and Renée Fleming and once sang two songs to the U.S. Supreme Court. He played a private eye and a cowboy, gave the news from his hometown, Lake Wobegon, and met Somali cabdrivers who’d learned English from listening to the show. He wrote bestselling novels, won a Grammy and a National Humanities Medal, and made a movie with Robert Altman with an alarming amount of improvisation. He says, “I was unemployable and managed to invent work for myself that I loved all my life, and on top of that I married well. That’s the secret, work and love. And I chose the right ancestors, impoverished Scots and Yorkshire farmers, good workers. I’m heading for eighty, and I still get up to write before dawn every day.”

Hard Nox (Wild Scots, #1)

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ISBN 13 : 9781673069341
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Hard Nox (Wild Scots, #1) written by Jolie Vines and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He's a brawler, she's a speed racer. Together, they're explosive. Isobel: Heir to the McRae estate, Lennox is the huge Highlander everyone respects. But deep down, he's a dirty fighter. He crashed my car, stole my first kiss, then walked away with another woman. There's no reason why, years later, when I see him in a fight, I should be lusting after his body. They call him Hard Nox, but I know him, and damned if he's getting an easy ride back into my life. Nox: Isobel is a menace. She races cars and has tattoos in places I can't even imagine. I shouldn't want her. But I can't forget the one kiss we shared as teenagers. Fresh out of the military, I have one thing in my sights - her. Isobel Fitzroy is my best friend's sister, and I'm going to tame her wild heart. -- From the author of the Marry the Scot series comes a brand-new generation. Wild Scots brings you everything you love about Scottish heroes and contemporary romance but sexier, faster, and supercharged. Speed away with this series today.

Storm the Castle (Marry the Scot, #1)

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Publisher : Marry the Scot
ISBN 13 : 9781794487796
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (877 download)

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Download or read book Storm the Castle (Marry the Scot, #1) written by Jolie Vines and published by Marry the Scot. This book was released on 2019-03-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Come, lass. Get on a plane with me."After a business deal goes awry, Laird Callum McRae is in over his head, struggling to keep his castle afloat. He knows exactly what he has to do to save his family of brothers. Collecting a debt from the corrupt man who swindled him is his only mission. But when he meets a compassionate and determined woman, his plans change.Now, he needs to get the girl while confronting her father...Mathilda Storm will do anything for her sister--even if it means entering into a contract for a loveless marriage. After all, it will solve her family's problems. But she doesn't count on meeting a broad-shouldered, rugged Scottish laird. And resisting him is harder than she imagined. As the chemistry between Callum and Mathilda ignites, Mathilda is torn between her desire and her need to help her family. Can the practical daughter marry the Scot without losing her heart along the way?

The Living Mountain

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Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 0857863606
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

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Book Synopsis The Living Mountain by : Nan Shepherd

Download or read book The Living Mountain written by Nan Shepherd and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453245030
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Book Synopsis The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by : Muriel Spark

Download or read book The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie written by Muriel Spark and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A perfect book”—and basis for the Maggie Smith film—about a teacher who makes a lasting impression on her female students in the years before World War II (Chicago Tribune). “Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!” So asserts Jean Brodie, a magnetic, dubious, and sometimes comic teacher at the conservative Marcia Blaine School for Girls in Edinburgh. Brodie selects six favorite pupils to mold—and she doesn’t stop with just their intellectual lives. She has a plan for them all, including how they will live, whom they will love, and what sacrifices they will make to uphold her ideals. When the girls reach adulthood and begin to find their own destinies, Jean Brodie’s indelible imprint is a gift to some, and a curse to others. The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is Spark’s masterpiece, a novel that offers one of twentieth-century English literature’s most iconic and complex characters—a woman at once admirable and sinister, benevolent and conniving. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Muriel Spark including rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s archive at the National Library of Scotland.

Fallen Snow (Wild Scots, #4)

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Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (539 download)

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Download or read book Fallen Snow (Wild Scots, #4) written by Jolie Vines and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-14 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hot rock star meets injured snowboarder. Even broken hearts can melt. Viola After a hit and run, my gold medal dreams are forced on hold. I can't walk, let alone snowboard, and a wheelchair is my new way to get around. Everything I worked for has been destroyed. Then the world's number one rock star strides into my life. He's staying in my castle and working with my family. I know he remembers the kiss we shared years ago, but Leo's no longer the same man. Gone are the sexy smirks and chilled out vibe. I know why, and I want to hold him close and make him forget. How can I help him when I can't even help myself? Leo I might be famous, but notoriety can't fix a shattered heart. I'm alone in the world and drowning, except my contract calls for new songs, and soon. I have to find my muse again. Years ago, Viola McRae inspired my greatest hit. But now, she's as damaged on the outside as I am on the inside. She's wildly gorgeous, vulnerable, and I could so easily tap that hurt and turn it into song. Yet saving my career could mean exposing Viola's pain to the world. I might be damaged beyond repair, but can I really use Viola when that will only leave her more broken? -- Fallen Snow features one hot rock star, a grumpy laid-up sportswoman, a remote Scottish castle, and a steamy-as-heck second chance romance.

Love Most, Say Least (Marry the Scot, #2)

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 : 9781094869322
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (693 download)

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Download or read book Love Most, Say Least (Marry the Scot, #2) written by Jolie Vines and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The boy who has everything meets the girl who has nothing...when she nearly runs him over. James Fitzroy's life could be called charmed. With an ancient name and a sprawling country estate, only an arranged marriage stands between him and his billionaire inheritance. But appearances are rarely what they seem. Traumatised after a tragic accident, speaking doesn't come easily to James, and he cares little for anything, including who he weds. Until the screech of brakes awakens him to all he can't have. Beth Grace might be descended from criminals, but she'd never follow in their footsteps. Apart from the one time she did. Now, even an invitation to go driving in Scotland with the world's most handsome man can't derail her from her plan to pay her dues. Besides, despite the startling chemistry, women like her don't get to date earls. She couldn't be further from what he needs. Two broken souls can make a whole. There's just the matter of a wedding in the way.

Livre Des Sans-foyer

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Publisher : NEw York, C. Scribner
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Book Synopsis Livre Des Sans-foyer by : Edith Wharton

Download or read book Livre Des Sans-foyer written by Edith Wharton and published by NEw York, C. Scribner. This book was released on 1916 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Crossing

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Publisher : Emblem Editions
ISBN 13 : 1551995719
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Crossing by : Guy Vanderhaeghe

Download or read book The Last Crossing written by Guy Vanderhaeghe and published by Emblem Editions. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the second half of the nineteenth century, in the American and Canadian West and in Victorian England, The Last Crossing is a sweeping tale of interwoven lives and stories Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their brother Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. Charles, a disillusioned artist, and Addington, a disgraced military captain, enlist the services of a guide to lead them on their journey across a difficult and unknown landscape. This is the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scottish, who suffers his own painful past. The party grows to include Caleb Ayto, a sycophantic American journalist, and Lucy Stoveall, a wise and beautiful woman who travels in the hope of avenging her sister’s vicious murder. Later, the group is joined by Custis Straw, a Civil War veteran searching for salvation, and Custis’s friend and protector Aloysius Dooley, a saloon-keeper. This unlikely posse becomes entangled in an unfolding drama that forces each person to come to terms with his own demons. The Last Crossing contains many haunting scenes – among them, a bear hunt at dawn, the meeting of a Métis caravan, the discovery of an Indian village decimated by smallpox, a sharpshooter’s devastating annihilation of his prey, a young boy’s last memory of his mother. Vanderhaeghe links the hallowed colleges of Oxford and the pleasure houses of London to the treacherous Montana plains; and the rough trading posts of the Canadian wilderness to the heart of Indian folklore. At the novel’s centre is an unusual and moving love story. The Last Crossing is Guy Vanderhaeghe’s most powerful novel to date. It is a novel of harshness and redemption, an epic masterpiece, rich with unforgettable characters and vividly described events, that solidifies his place as one of Canada’s premier storytellers.

Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439127441
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? written by Mark Zwonitzer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of the Carter Family, the musical pioneers who almost single-handedly created the sounds and traditions that grew into modern folk, country, and bluegrass music. Meticulously researched and lovingly written, it is a look at a world and a culture that, rather than passing, has continued to exist in the music that is the legacy of the Carters—songs that have shaped and influenced generations of artists who have followed them. Brilliant in insight and execution, Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone? is also an in-depth study of A.P., Sara, and Maybelle Carter, and their bittersweet story of love and fulfillment, sadness and loss. The result is more than just a biography of a family; it is also a journey into another time, almost another world, and theirs is a story that resonates today and lives on in the timeless music they created.

The Rival (Marry the Scot Prequel)

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Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (63 download)

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Download or read book The Rival (Marry the Scot Prequel) written by Jolie Vines and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-12-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resigned to marry a man she despises in order to save her family's farm, Marianne McKenzie can't let one point lie. If she's going to lose her virginity anytime soon, it'll be on her terms. But when she propositions a stranger, she can't predict that the sweet, generous, super sexy man will turn out to be her betrothed's relative. And fierce rival.Lachlan McRae will one day be chief of his clan, but right now, he's happy to rest on his laurels. Until he encounters a fiery lass who won't take no for an answer. Then loses her on the same day. The worst of all? It's to his black-hearted cousin. No way can he be beaten by the man. Especially in love.Let the Highland Games begin.The Rival is a snappy and steamy PREQUEL in the Marry the Scot world. It is entirely standalone, though you may recognise one or two names from the main series.

The Fiery Cross

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Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385674651
Total Pages : 992 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)

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Download or read book The Fiery Cross written by Diana Gabaldon and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-17 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crossing the boundaries of genre with its unrivalled storytelling, Diana Gabaldon’s new novel is a gift both to her millions of loyal fans and to the lucky readers who have yet to discover her. In the ten years since her extraordinary debut novel, Outlander, was published, beloved author Diana Gabaldon has entertained scores of readers with her heart-stirring stories and remarkable characters. The four volumes of her bestselling saga, featuring eighteenth-century Scotsman James Fraser and his twentieth-century, time-travelling wife, Claire Randall, boasts nearly 5 million copies in the U.S. The story of Outlander begins just after the Second World War, when a British field nurse named Claire Randall walks through a cleft stone in the Scottish highlands and is transported back some two hundred years to 1743. Here, now, is The Fiery Cross, the eagerly awaited fifth volume in this remarkable, award-winning series of historical novels. The year is 1771, and war is approaching. Jamie Fraser’s wife has told him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy – a time-traveller’s certain knowledge. To break his oath to the Crown will brand him a traitor; to keep it is certain doom. Jamie Fraser stands in the shadow of the fiery cross – a standard that leads nowhere but to the bloody brink of war.