"Four tales, each set in a different time and place - from Paris before the Revolution to London during the Bliz, from the West Indies in the grip of slavery to Quebec at the height of the French and Indian War - and yet each one a fiery thread in the warp and weft of the epic story that began in Scotland in 1945, when Claire Randall first touched a boulder in an ancient stone circle and was hurled back in time..." --From jacket flap.