In 1945 a former combat nurse is back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon, when she innocently touches a boulder on an ancient stone circle. Suddenly she is a Sassenach, an "outlander," in a Scotland torn by war in the year 1743. She enters a world of lairds and spies that threaten her life during the Jacobite Rebellion.

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