culloden, battle of, scotland, 1746

While vacationing in Scotland in 1945, Clare stumbles upon an ancient stone circle and is hurled back in time two hundred years where she discovers a new life and a timeless love.

While vacationing in Scotland in 1945, Clare stumbles upon an ancient stone circle and is hurled back in time two hundred years where she discovers a new life and a timeless love.

Claire Randall returns to the Scottish Highlands twenty years after her first visit during which she was transported through the standing stones of Craigh na Dun into the 1700s, to try and discover what happened to the people she knew and loved in the earlier century and to tell her daughter the truth about her father.

In 1746, a year after the Scottish clans have rallied to the call of their exiled prince, Charles Stuart, to take up arms against England's tyranny, fourteen-year-old, epileptic Duncan MacDonald and his cousin, Ewan, run away to join the fight at Culloden and discover the harsh reality of war.