Clare Randall is enjoying her honeymoon with Frank when looking for a rare flower one morning she accidentally steps through a Stonehenge. She finds herself 200 years in the past and 2 years before the massacre on the Fields at Culloden. Clare comes face to face with Frank's descendant, Johnathan and discovers his looks are the only family resemblance. She also meets a young and proud Scottish Highlander named Jamie Fraser. After a marriage to save both their lives their love grows and so begins a love of a life time that seems it can only end in tragedy.
 

Cross Stitch is the first book in the Outlander Series. The others are Voyager, Dragon Fly in Amber,  The Drums of Autumn and the Fiery Cross. The sixth book, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, will be released later this year.

Cross Stitch will appeal to just about anyone. It is an incredible love story based on unconditional friendship with a historical background of  harsh 18th century Scotland. including events leading up to the British massacre of the Clans at Culloden Fields.

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Three girls who shared a childhood find themselves facing adulthood separately. Set in New Zealand and covering the years from 1940 to the present, the story encompasses a varied setting from the country to the

city. Mata, Makereta and Missy struggle to survive while cultural and political circumstances  swirl around them.

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If you are looking for a compre-hensive history of New Zealand, you have found it here.  From its beginning as the last country in the world to be discovered to its development as the first to introduce a full

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