Cross Stitch

Diana Gabaldon

ISBN 10: 0712647600 / ISBN 13: 9780712647601

Published by Century Publishing, 1992

Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is lightly shelfworn and edgeworn, otherwise is clean and intact with no tears, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Clean boards with minor edgewear; Textblock edges are yellowing from age with a few small blemishes; The endpapers and text pages are all clean and unmarked, but are yellowing from age around the edges; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Medium Format (8.5" - 9.75" tall); 2.1 lbs; Jacket illustration of mountains with title in silver/red lettering; 1992, Century Publishing ; 656 pages; "Cross Stitch," by Diana Gabaldon. Seller Inventory # SKU-1237AA07502194

Synopsis:

The year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743.

Hurled back in time by forces she cannot understand, Claire is catapulted into the intrigues of lairds and spies that may threaten her life, and shatter her heart. For here James Fraser, a gallant young Scots warrior, shows her a love so absolute that Claire becomes a woman torn between fidelity and desire—and between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Review: In Outlander, a 600-page time-travel romance, strong-willed and sensual Claire Randall leads a double life with a husband in one century, and a lover in another. Torn between fidelity and desire, she struggles to understand the pure intent of her heart. But don't let the number of pages and the Scottish dialect scare you. It's one of the fastest reads you'll have in your library.

While on her second honeymoon in the British Isles, Claire touches a boulder that hurls her back in time to the forbidden Castle Leoch with the MacKenzie clan. Not understanding the forces that brought her there, she becomes ensnared in life-threatening situations with a Scots warrior named James Fraser. But it isn't all spies and drudgery that she must endure. For amid her new surroundings and the terrors she faces, she is lured into love and passion like she's never known before.

I was lame and sore in every muscle when I woke next morning. I shuffled to the privy closet, then to the wash basin. My innards felt like churned butter. It felt as though I had been beaten with a blunt object, I reflected, then thought that that was very near the truth. The blunt object in question was visible as I came back to bed, looking now relatively harmless. Its possessor [Jamie] woke as I sat next to him, and examined me with something that looked very much like male smugness."

Gabaldon creates characters that you'll remember, laugh with, cry with, and cheer for long after you've finished the book. --Candy Paape

Bibliographic Details

Title: Cross Stitch
Publisher: Century Publishing
Publication Date: 1992
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good