Dragonfly in Amber
Diana Gabaldon, 1992
A twentieth-century historian and an eighteenth-century Highlander are separated by two centuries and a cause already lost; the second Outlander novel is about what loyalty costs.
Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books mix historical fiction, time travel and a long, patient look at a marriage. «Outlander» begins it: a 1945 nurse steps through a standing stone into 1743 Scotland and has to find her footing among a clan and a redcoat garrison, and «Dragonfly in Amber» carries the same people into a cause already lost, weighing what loyalty costs. Start with «Outlander».
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Diana Gabaldon holds a PhD in ecology and was a university research professor before turning to fiction; she began the Outlander series as a practice novel.
The one thing he will ask to be weighed against the rest.
I will find you," he whispered in my ear. "I promise. If I must endure two hundred years of purgatory, two hundred years without you - then that is my punishment, which I have earned for my crimes. For I have lied, and killed, and stolen; betrayed and broken trust. But there is the one thing that shall lie in the balance. When I shall stand before God, I shall have one thing to say, to weigh against the rest."His voice dropped, nearly to a whisper, and his arms tightened around me.Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well. Books by Diana Gabaldon
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