Dragonfly in Amber (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved Patsy M’s request to combine 3 books, including Dragonfly in Amber, 2 weeks ago.

Patsy M submitted a request to combine 3 books, including Dragonfly in Amber, 2 weeks ago.

Dana A edited the summary of Dragonfly in Amber 2 weeks ago.

• Dragonfly in Amber, the second book in the best-selling Outlander series, is written by Diana Gabaldon.

  Her books are difficult to classify by genre, since they contain elements of romantic fiction, historical fiction, and science fiction. The stories center around a time-travelling 20th-century nurse (Claire Randall) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (Jamie Fraser), and are located in Scotland, France, the West Indies, and America.

  Scotland, 1968
  Dragonfly in Amber opens when Claire returns to Scotland with her twenty-year old daughter, Brianna, hoping to find a way to break the news of the girl's true paternity to her, with the help of historian Roger Wakefield.

  The story then flashes back in time (literally and figuratively) to when Claire and Jamie lived in Paris after their escape at the end of Outlander. As the story develops, we learn about Claire and Jamie Fraser's fight to stop the 1745 Jacobite rebellion and the bloody battle of Culloden -- and also how and why Claire returned to the future.

  Paris, 1744
  At the end of Outlander, Claire convinced Jamie that they should do everything they could to stop the coming Jacobite Rising and the slaughter that would follow. After learning that Charles Stuart is trying to get money from the French King, Louis XV, they travel to Paris. In Paris, Jamie agrees to work with his cousin Jared, running his wine business and, since many of his French relatives are Jacobites and are well placed in society, secures meetings with Charles Edward Stuart (also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) and many well-to-do members of the French aristocracy and bourgeoisie. So, while running Jared Fraser's wine business, Jamie and Claire begin to plot against the Bonnie Prince.

  However, their lives are soon interrupted by the arrival of Jack Randall, a character that Jamie and Claire thought had died at Wentworth Prison. Jamie, in spite of promising Claire that he would spare Randall's life in order to spare Claire's previous husband, Frank, challenges Randall to a duel in the Bois de Boulogne. Though he doesn't kill the man, he does wound him and renders him impotent. And, after she witnesses the duel, Claire loses the child she was carrying and is taken away to l'Hôpital des Anges, where they believe she won't recover. Jamie is sent to the Bastille for the crime of dueling.

  Scotland, 1745 and the Rising
  After recovering from her illness, Claire manages to free Jamie from prison. One of the conditions of his release is that they must leave France, so they sail to Scotland. (Fortunately, Jamie is pardoned for his crimes and won't be arrested by the English.) Once in Scotland, Claire and Jamie settle in to farm life at Jamie's home at Lallybroch, with his sister, Jenny, and her family. However, Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, announcing his attempt to retake the throne of Scotland. There is no escape, as Charles has had Jamie's signature forged on the letter as one of his supporters. The Rising has begun.

  Seeing no option but to go and fight for the Stuarts, Jamie gathers the men of Lallybroch to join the Stuart army. They fight and win at the battle of Prestonpans, but the tide soon turns against the Jacobites. The Rising culminates in the disastrous battle of Culloden. Jamie, knowing that the Scots won't win at Culloden, takes Claire and heads for Craig na Dun, where he forces her to travel back to her own time, to spare her the battle's aftermath. Before she goes, however, Jamie tells Claire that he knows she is pregnant again. After sending her through the stones, Jamie returns to Culloden, intending to die.

  1968, again
  The lengthy flashback ends and the reader learns that the child Claire was carrying through the stones is Brianna. Claire explains that Frank asked Claire where she had been during her absence but refused to believe her, thinking she was mentally unstable. Claire told him to leave her but suspecting he was sterile and desperate for a child, he asked Claire to allow him to be father to her baby and only tell Brianna the truth after his death. The novel ends with Roger informing Claire that Jamie didn't die at Culloden. And the reason why Claire wanted Roger to be present while revealing to Brianna her true parentage.

Shelfari edited the description of Dragonfly in Amber Wednesday, December 9 2009.

• From the author of Outlander ... a magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland... 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 to the dangers of his .... Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....

Bwitchd3 edited the characters of Dragonfly in Amber Tuesday, November 17 2009.

• Changed the section title: Cast of Characters/Important People
• Added the description of Claire Randall / Fraser: Claire is the main character of this series. She is a strong woman who has no problem stating her opinion. She is hilarious and passionate and every woman will be able to identify with her on some level.
• marked the description of Claire Randall / Fraser as not a spoiler

Timothy Gray approved Kaffles’s request to combine 6 books, including Dragonfly in Amber, Saturday, October 31 2009.

Kaffles edited the books with additional background information of Dragonfly in Amber Tuesday, October 20 2009.

• Added The Outlandish Companion

Kaffles submitted a request to combine 6 books, including Dragonfly in Amber, Tuesday, October 20 2009.

Timothy Gray approved Sunflowery’s request to combine 2 books, including Dragonfly in Amber, Saturday, August 29 2009.

Sunflowery submitted a request to combine 2 books, including Dragonfly in Amber, Friday, August 7 2009.