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Dragonfly in Amber Study Guide & Plot Synopsis

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It is the year 1968. Claire Randall Fraser has a twenty-year-old daughter fathered by Jamie Fraser of Clan Fraser of the Highlands of Scotland. He is from the year 1745. The explanation of their daughter's birth, through a strange mechanism of time travel, is what the story is fundamentally all about. At the beginning of the story, Claire and her daughter Brianna visit an old friend named Roger at his late uncle's home. Claire desires to look into an old battle fought in Scotland where the Fraser family had passed away.

Twenty years before Brianna's birth Claire leans against one of the standing stones and is transported back in time to the brutal and raw Highlands of Scotland. First, Claire is attacked by Jonathan Randall, who is actually Frank's ancestor. He is a rude captain and tries to force himself...
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