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title:                                  The Fiery Cross
tagline:                                Crossing the boundaries of genre, unrivalled storytelling
date:                                   2016-11-26 00:00:00

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  pages:                                1443
  publisher:                            Random House USA Inc
  author:                               Diana Gabaldon
  ISBN10:                               0440221668
  ISBN13:                               9780440221661
  rank:                                 820

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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.

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[[readmore]]
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.