Book: The Fiery Cross

Audiobook
The Fiery Cross, by Diana Gabaldon
Read by Geraldine James

I was unable to get through the first tape of this book. The reader on the audio kept lapsing into this terrible fake Scottish accent that was unintelligible and finally I turned it off. I refused to waste my time on something that I could only partially understand.

The book's premise interested me greatly and I will try to find it in print. In the meantime, I looked it up on amazon.com and discovered it is the fifth in a series, so I will need to go back and start at the beginning.

Here is what amazon had to say:

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.