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1) Outlander
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
In 1945, a former combat nurse, back from the war and on her honeymoon, touches a boulder in an ancient Scottish ruin and is instantly transported to a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in 1743.
Author
Series
Prince Charlie's Angels volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Annie MacPherson's world was torn apart when her family's castle was ravaged during the war. Determined to aid her countrymen, she braves the battlefield and finds gravely wounded Lieutenant Craig MacLean. Soon her heart belongs to the fierce warrior."--Publisher description.
Author
Series
Prince Charlie's Angels volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Toran Fraser is hell-bent on taking down the Jacobites. On a late-night mission, he's intercepted by a woman known only as 'Mistress J', who's determined to put Prince Charlie back on the throne of Scotland. Toran can't resist her appeal--especially with her pistol pointed at his heart--and suddenly finds himself joining the rebellion... By day, highborn Jenny Mackintosh runs her estate in the Highlands. By night, she's one of Prince Charlie's Angels--a...
Author
Series
Lord John Grey novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Lord John Grey has documents that expose the corruption of a high-ranking British officer. But they also elude to an even greater danger, one that sends Grey on a quest to the Irish country. Along the way, he seeks the aide of Jamie Fraser, a paroled Jacobite still fighting for Ireland's independence. Grey needs Fraser to help translate a message left in the language of the Scottish highlanders, but Fraser has his doubts about helping the British...
Author
Series
Outlander novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones, about a love that transcends the boundaries of time, and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"November, 1745. Preston, Lancashire. Rumours abound that Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender, has landed in Scotland, intent on marching south to claim the English throne. Meanwhile, a headless body is discovered in an icy pond. Coroner Titus Cragg thinks he has a lead when a head is eventually found - only to discover that it belongs to a different body. Could there be a connection to the approaching rebel army? Or is someone using the Highlanders'...
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