1945\. Claire Randall, jeune infirmière, retrouve son mari Frank dans un village écossais pour leur lune de miel. Alors qu'elle se promène dans la lande, elle découvre un site mégalithique où les villageoises se réunissent en secret pour célébrer d'étranges rites. Fascinée, elle s'approche d'un grand menhir fendu... et se volatilise ! Quand elle reprend conscience, elle est entourée de combattants en pleine action. Et, curieusement, l'un d'entre eux est le sosie de son époux. À sa grande stupeur, elle comprend aussitôt qu'elle a été propulsée... en l'an de grâce 1743 ! Période troublée s'il en fut : l'Écosse, occupée par les félons anglais, est à feu et à sang... Ainsi commence une épopée sauvage et baroque où se mêlent fantastique et histoire, action, amour et humour.

Deux siècles... Claire, en franchissant la porte de pierre, a atterri deux cents ans en arrière. Enlevée, violentée, soupçonnée d'espionnage, tiraillée entre Ecossais et Anglais, ses voyages dans le temps n'ont pas fini de lui réserver des surprises... D'autant plus qu'entre Frank Randall, son mari du XXe siècle, et Jamie Fraser, le beau rebelle des Highlands qu'elle a dû épouser pour échapper à la mort, la voici désormais polyandre ! Ce qui n'est pas du goût de Laoghaire, une adolescente amoureuse de Jamie... Et rien n'est plus dangereux qu'une jeune amoureuse. C'est ainsi que Claire, accusée de sorcellerie, se voit condamnée au bûcher... Comment échapper à ce sort funeste et oublier ce brûlant cauchemar ? Claire a-t-elle réellement envie de quitter Jamie ? Telle est la question...

Scozia, 1945. Claire Randall, infermiera militare, attraversa un antico cerchio di pietre e si trova proiettata indietro nel tempo, nell'anno del Signore 1743, in un mondo radicalmente diverso. Stati Uniti, 1968: per vent'anni Claire ha mantenuto il suo segreto ma ora, divenuta vedova, torna con la figlia a Craigh na Dun, in Scozia. In quel luogo fatato svelerà il mistero della sua vita e racconterà a Brianna, una splendida ragazza dai capelli rossi, la magia di quel cerchio di pietre, un amore che trascende i confini del tempo e la storia di James Fraser, un guerriero scozzese che l'aveva conquistata al punto da farle abbandonare la propria epoca e mettere in gioco la propria identità. Ed è proprio nel tentativo di ritrovare Jamie che Claire si ritufferà nelle vertigini di un passato che l'aveva portata fino alla corte di Versailles per provare a cambiare il corso della Storia. Ma la strada è lunga, e piena di sorprese e imprevisti... "L'amuleto d'ambra", secondo capitolo della serie Outlander divenuta ora anche una serie TV.

Nell'Amuleto d'ambra Claire Randall, viaggiatrice nel tempo e nello spazio, aveva incominciato a spiegare una difficile verità alla figlia Brianna: negli anni in cui era ufficialmente data per dispersa, fra il 1945 e il 1946, era in realtà precipitata, attraverso il magico cerchio di pietre di Craigh na Dun, nella Scozia del Settecento, dove si era innamorata follemente del nobile James Fraser. In un susseguirsi di avventure palpitanti, tra campi di battaglia e manieri misteriosi, i due amanti consumano la loro ardente passione, consapevoli che Claire, prima o poi, si sarebbe trovata di fronte a una difficile e dolorosa decisione: seguire il suo uomo perdendosi definitivamente nel passato, o tornare a un presente che ormai non le appartiene più, con la sola speranza di portare con sé una traccia del suo amato... Sullo sfondo di una Scozia settecentesca magica ed evocativa, Diana Gabaldon ci regala un romanzo intenso e appassionante che offre immagini suggestive di un passato lontano visto attraverso lo sguardo di una donna del ventesimo secolo.

From the author of the breathtaking bestsellers Outlander and Dragonfly in Amber, the extraordinary saga continues.Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scot named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead in the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her... and her body still cries out for him in her dreams. Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland... and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite or forever doom her timeless love.

In this breathtaking novel—rich in history and adventure—The New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon continues the story of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser that began with the now-classic novel Outlander and continued in Dragonfly in Amber and Voyager. Once again spanning continents and centuries, Diana Gabaldon has created a work of sheer passion and brilliance.... It began at an ancient Scottish stone circle. There, a doorway, open to a select few, leads into the past—or the grave. Dr. Claire Randall survived the extraordinary passage, not once but twice. Her first trip swept her into the arms of Jamie Fraser, an eighteenth-century Scot whose love for her became a legend—a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Her second journey, two decades later, brought them together again in the American colonies. But Claire had left someone behind in the twentieth century—their daughter, Brianna.... Now Brianna has made a disturbing discovery that sends her to the circle of stones and a terrifying leap into the unknown. In search of her mother and the father she has never met, she is risking her own future to try to change history ... and to save their lives. But as Brianna plunges into an uncharted wilderness, a heartbreaking encounter may strand her forever in the past ... or root her in the place she should be, where her heart and soul belong....

A new Outlander novel—the seventh—from #1 National Bestselling author Diana Gabaldon. Readers have been waiting with bated breath for the seventh volume in bestselling author Diana Gabaldon’s epic Outlander saga—a masterpiece of historical fiction featuring Jamie and Claire, from one of the genre’s most popular and beloved authors. Jamie Fraser, erstwhile Jacobite and reluctant rebel, knows three things about the American rebellion: the Americans will win, unlikely as that seems in 1778; being on the winning side is no guarantee of survival; and he’d rather die than face his illegitimate son—a young lieutenant in the British Army—across the barrel of a gun. Fraser’s time-travelling wife, Claire, also knows a couple of things: that the Americans will win, but that the ultimate price of victory is a mystery. What she does believe is that the price won’t include Jamie’s life or happiness—not if she has anything to say. Claire’s grown daughter Brianna, and her husband, Roger, watch the unfolding of Brianna’s parents’ history—a past that may be sneaking up behind their own family.

Cycle fantastique mettant en scène Claire Beauchamp-Randall, jeune femme moderne, propulsée dans l'Ecosse du XVIIIe siècle, lors d'une promenade dans la lande. Brianna, la fille de Claire, est inquiète pour son époux, Roger, et, en cette année 1771, elle doit puiser dans tout son savoir tiré du XXe siècle si elle veut avoir une chance de sauver ceux qu'elle aime.