Outlander Diana Gabaldon

In 1945, Claire Randall is on a second honeymoon in the Scottish Highlands with her husband Frank when she touches a standing stone at the ancient site of Craigh na Dun — and is hurled two hundred years back to 1743. There she is caught between warring British soldiers and Scots rebels, and finds herself forced into a marriage of protection with the young, red-haired warrior Jamie Fraser. What begins as a desperate arrangement deepens into a love of rare emotional and physical intensity, while Claire is simultaneously desperate to find her way back to her own time — and her other husband. Gabaldon’s sweeping debut is part time-travel adventure, part historical epic, part passionate love story — a genre-defying doorstop of a novel that spawned an eight-book series, a global fan following, and a long-running television adaptation.