1968. À la mort de son mari, Claire Beauchamp emmène sa fille en Écosse, sur les lieux mêmes où, vingt ans plus tôt, elle a vécu d'extraordinaires aventures...
1772. Le brûlot de la rébellion flambe : à Boston, des cadavres gisent dans les rues, et en Caroline du Nord, des cabanes s'embrasent dans la forêt. Une ombre plane au-dessus de Fraser's Ridge, communauté dans laquelle Claire et Jamie coulaient des jours heureux. Quand le gouverneur cherche une personnalité charismatique capable d'unir l'arrière-pays et d'apaiser les tensions entre Indiens et colons, tous les membres de la colonie en émoi voient en Jamie l'homme de la situation. Mais les choses ne sont pas si simples... Malgré eux, Claire et le guerrier écossais sont emportés dans un tourbillon de violence, de règlements de comptes et de perfidies. Après avoir défié les siècles, leur amour pourra-t-il survivre à ces tourments ?
londres, 1757.
par une belle matinée de la mi-juin, john grey émerge de son club de gentlemen, le beefsteak, en plein désarroi. jeune aristocrate et haut gradé de l'armée de sa majesté britannique, il vient d'assister à une scène on ne peut plus " shocking ". ses efforts pour éviter un scandale susceptible de détruire sa famille sont toutefois interrompus par une affaire plus urgente encore : la couronne le charge d'enquêter sur le meurtre brutal d'un compagnon d'armes, soupçonné de haute trahison.
contraint de mener de front les deux investigations, le major grey se trouve emporté dans un réseau de traîtrises politiques et sentimentales qui touche toutes les strates de la société. et menace tout ce qui lui tient à coeur. des lupanars sordides du monde de la nuit aux salons d'apparat de la noblesse en passant par les entrepôts de la puissante compagnie des indes orientales, lord john se lance sur la piste d'un mystérieux valet de pied et d'une non moins intrigante femme en robe de velours vert.
Dans le troisième volet de ses aventures, lord John Grey, l'un des personnages de la saga culte " Le Cercle de pierre " et nouveau héros fétiche de Diana Gabaldon, doit résoudre des enquêtes qui l'entraînent aux limites du fantastique. Afin de venger, dans Le club Hellfire, un séduisant diplomate assassiné en pleine rue, le jeune homme infiltre une société secrète où des gentlemen respectables se livrent à d'inquiétantes débauches. Dans Le succube, détaché auprès d'un régiment en Allemagne, Grey se retrouve piégé entre deux menaces : l'avancée des troupes franco-autrichiennes et une mystérieuse créature de la nuit qui sème la terreur et la mort parmi les soldats. De retour à Londres dans Le soldat hanté, lord John est convoqué devant une commission royale chargée d'enquêter sur l'explosion d'un canon sur un champ de bataille. S'il souhaite blanchir sa réputation, il lui faudra affronter ses propres démons... Un envoûtant parfum de surnaturel entoure ces trois formidables nouvelles de Diana Gabaldon, qui, avec le talent qu'on lui connaît, redonne vie à l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle.
Londres, 1760. Lord John Grey se retrouve en possession de documents accablants portant la preuve d'un complot politique et accusant un officier britannique de trahison. Il demande à son ami Jamie Fraser, prisonnier de guerre irlandais sous liberté conditionnelle, de l'aider à traduire l'une des lettres écrites en gaélique. Les deux hommes se retrouvent sur les routes d'Irlande.
La Confrérie de l'épée marque le retour de lord John Grey, gentleman et homme d'épée émérite, et de James Fraser, highlander au gravi peur, tous deux présents dans la célèbre saga " Le Cercle de pierre ". 1758. Lord John Grey est victime d'un infâme chantage. Un inconnu menace de raviver un douloureux scandale en rendant publiques des pages du journal intime de son défunt père, le duc de Pardloe. Dix-sept ans auparavant, celui-ci s'est suicidé, accusé d'avoir participé à un complot jacobite. Alors qu'il est envoyé combattre eux côtés des Prussiens sur le front rhénan et qu'il est pris dans les rets d'une sulfureuse liaison, lord John Grey doit débrouiller l'écheveau du passé tout en affrontant les démons du présent. Des champs de bataille aux salons mondains londoniens, le jeune homme part en quête de vérité. La clef du mystère se trouve peut-être entre les mains de James Fraser, prisonnier jacobite qui confronte lord John Grey au choix ultime : sauver son honneur ou sa propre vie. Roman historique doublé d'une intrigue policière captivante, La Confrérie de l'épée fait revivre avec panache l'Angleterre du XVIIIe siècle et s'inscrit dans la lignée des grandes fresques dont Diana Gabaldon a le secret.
DIANA GABALDON is the author of the international bestselling Outlander novels and Lord John Grey series. She says that the Outlander series started by accident: ''I decided to write a novel for practice in order to learn what it took to write a novel, and to decide whether I really wanted to do it for real. I did - and here we all are trying to decide what to call books that nobody can describe, but that fortunately most people seem to enjoy.'' And enjoy them they do - in their millions, all over the world. Published in 42 countries and 38 languages, in 2014 the Outlander novels were made into an acclaimed TV series starring Sam Heughan as Jamie Fraser and Caitriona Balfe as Claire. The series has now been renewed for a fifth and sixth season. Diana lives with her husband and dogs in Scottsdale, Arizona.
1946, and Claire Randall goes to the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank. It's a second honeymoon, a chance to learn how war has changed them and to re-establish their loving marriage. But one afternoon, Claire walks through a circle of standing stones and vanishes into 1743.
For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to the majesty of Scotland's mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth. Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful daughter...
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldons work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages. One of the top ten best-loved novels in America, as seen on PBSs The Great American Read ! Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British 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 Sassenach--an outlander--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of a world that threatens her life, and may shatter her heart. Marooned amid danger, passion, and violence, Claire learns her only chance of safety lies in Jamie Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior. What begins in compulsion becomes urgent need, and Claire finds herself torn between two very different men, in two irreconcilable lives. Praise for Diana Gabaldons Outlander novels Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading. -- San Francisco Chronicle , on Outlander History comes deliciously alive on the page. --New York Daily News , on Outlander Gabaldon is a born storyteller. . . . The pages practically turn themselves. -- The Arizona Republic , on Dragonfly in Amber Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer. -- Publishers Weekly , on Voyager Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail. -- The Cincinnati Post , on Drums of Autumn A grand adventure written on a canvas that probes the heart, weighs the soul and measures the human spirit across [centuries]. --CNN , on The Fiery Cross The large scope of the novel allows Gabaldon to do what she does best, paint in exquisite detail the lives of her characters. -- Booklist , on A Breath of Snow and Ashes Features all the passion and swashbuckling that fans of this historical fantasy series have come to expect. -- People , on Written in My Own Hearts Blood
As battle-scarred Jamie Fraser and his twentieth-century time-travelling wife Claire Randall flee from North Carolina to the high seas during the American Revolution, they encounter privateers and ocean battles. Meanwhile in the relative safety of the 20th century Brianna (Claire and Jamie's daughter) and Roger MacKenzie, Brianna's husband, search for clues not only to Claire's fate--but to their own fate in the Highlands.
Previously published as A Trail of Fire . Includes two never-published-before short stories from the bestselling author of the Outlander series. Featuring all the characters you''ve come to love from the Outlander series, this brilliant collection of short stories throws you into the magical world of Outlander. Includes previously published Virgins , The Space Between , Plague of Zombies , A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows and The Custom of the Army , plus two never seen before works - Besieged and A Fugitive Green . A must-read for all Outlander fans!
B>The author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Outlander series returns with the newest novel in the epic tale./b>br> br>The past may seem the safest place to be . . . but it is the most dangerous time to be alive. . . .br> br>Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall were torn apart by the Jacobite Rising in 1743, and it took them twenty years to find each other again. Now the American Revolution threatens to do the same.br> br>It is 1779 and Claire and Jamie are at last reunited with their daughter, Brianna, her husband, Roger, and their children on Frasers Ridge. Having the family together is a dream the Frasers had thought impossible.br> br>Yet even in the North Carolina backcountry, the effects of war are being felt. Tensions in the Colonies are great and local feelings run hot enough to boil Hells tea-kettle. Jamie knows loyalties among his tenants are split and it wont be long until the war is on his doorstep.br> br>Brianna and Roger have their own worry: that the dangers that provoked their escape from the twentieth century might catch up to them. Sometimes they question whether risking the perils of the 1700s--among them disease, starvation, and an impending war--was indeed the safer choice for their family.br> br>Not so far away, young William Ransom is still coming to terms with the discovery of his true fathers identity--and thus his own--and Lord John Grey has reconciliations to make, and dangers to meet . . . on his sons behalf, and his own.br> br>Meanwhile, the Revolutionary War creeps ever closer to Frasers Ridge. And with the family finally together, Jamie and Claire have more at stake than ever before.
B>Llega Forastera, la primera entrega de la saga «Outlander»./b>br>br>b>Una apasionante novela que, contada con una prosa ágil y fluida, ha cimentado el éxito mundial de Diana Gabaldon y en la que se ha basado la conocida serie de televisión que lleva el mismo nombre./b>br>br>b>Comienza la historia de Claire Randal.../b>br>br>Recién acabada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, una joven pareja se reúne por fin para pasar sus vacaciones en Escocia. Una tarde, cuando pasea sola por la pradera, Claire se acerca a un círculo de piedras antiquísimas y cae de pronto en un extraño trance. Al volver en sí se encuentra con un panorama desconcertante: el mundo moderno ha desaparecido, ahora la rodea la Escocia de 1734, con sus clanes beligerantes y supersticiosos, hombres y mujeres rudos, a veces violentos, pero con una capacidad de vivir y de amar como Claire jamás había experimentado en su anterior vida. Acosada por los recuerdos, Claire tendrá que elegir entre la seguridad del futuro que dejó atrás y la apasionante incertidumbre del pasado que ahora habita.br>br>En esta primera parte de la saga de Claire Randall -que continúa con Atrapada en el tiempo, Viajera y Tambores de otoño-, Diana Gabaldon ha escrito una historia de amor diferente, en la que los encuentros fortuitos y el juego equívoco del tiempo se conjugan en un intrigante final.br>br>b>DESCRIPTION IN ENGLISH/b>br>br>b>#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER b>NOW A STARZ ORIGINAL SERIES/b>/b>br>br>Unrivaled storytelling. Unforgettable characters. Rich historical detail. These are the hallmarks of Diana Gabaldons work. Her New York Times bestselling Outlander novels have earned the praise of critics and captured the hearts of millions of fans. Here is the story that started it all, introducing two remarkable characters, Claire Beauchamp Randall and Jamie Fraser, in a spellbinding novel of passion and history that combines exhilarating adventure with a love story for the ages.
This sixth novel in Diana Gabaldons bestselling Outlander saga is a masterpiece of historical fiction from one of the most popular authors of our time. A Breath of Snow and Ashes continues the extraordinary story of 18th-century Scotsman Jamie Fraser and his 20th-century wife, Claire. The year is 1772, and on the eve of the American Revolution, the long fuse of rebellion has already been lit. Men lie dead in the streets of Boston, and in the backwoods of North Carolina, isolated cabins burn in the forest. With chaos brewing, the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the backcountry and safeguard the colony for King and Crown. But from his wife Jamie knows that three years hence the shot heard round the world will be fired, and the result will be independence--with those loyal to the King either dead or in exile. And there is also the matter of a tiny clipping from The Wilmington Gazette , dated 1776, which reports Jamies death, along with his kin. For once, he hopes, his time-traveling family may be wrong about the future.
Praise for Diana Gabaldons Outlander novels Marvelous and fantastic adventures, romance, sex . . . perfect escape reading. -- San Francisco Chronicle , on Outlander History comes deliciously alive on the page. --New York Daily News , on Outlander Gabaldon is a born storyteller. . . . The pages practically turn themselves. -- The Arizona Republic , on Dragonfly in Amber Triumphant . . . Her use of historical detail and a truly adult love story confirm Gabaldon as a superior writer. -- Publishers Weekly , on Voyager Unforgettable characters . . . richly embroidered with historical detail. -- The Cincinnati Post , on Drums of Autumn
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A magnificent collection of Outlander short fiction--including two never-before-published novellas--featuring Jamie Fraser, Lord John Grey, Master Raymond, and many more, from Diana Gabaldon Among the seven spellbinding pieces there is The Custom of the Army, which begins with Lord John Grey being shocked by an electric eel and ends at the Battle of Quebec. Then comes The Space Between, where it is revealed that the Comte St. Germain is not dead, Master Raymond appears, and a widowed young wine dealer escorts a would-be novice to a convent in Paris. In A Plague of Zombies, Lord John unexpectedly becomes military governor of Jamaica when the original governor is gnawed by what probably wasnt a giant rat. A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows is the moving story of Roger MacKenzies parents during World War II. In Virgins, Jamie Fraser, aged nineteen, and Ian Murray, aged twenty, become mercenaries in France, no matter that neither has yet bedded a lass or killed a man. But theyre trying. . . . A Fugitive Green is the story of Lord Johns elder brother, Hal, and a seventeen-year-old rare book dealer with a sideline in theft, forgery, and blackmail. And finally, in Besieged, Lord John learns that his mother is in Havana--and that the British Navy is on their way to lay siege to the city. Filling in mesmerizing chapters in the lives of characters readers have followed over the course of thousands of pages, Gabaldons genius is on full display throughout this must-have collection. Gabaldon is in fine form . . . weaving together characters lives, connecting plot points, and showing tantalizing glimpses of the larger Outlander world, of which this reader can never get enough.-- Historical Novels Review
