The pair vacation to Scotland to rekindle their love, restore their souls and begin again. While on a day excursion to see the various relics of the Scottish Highlands, they stop at the standing stones at Craigh na Dun, an unbeknownst portal for time travel. Claire is whisked back in time through the magic and mystery of time to the tension of 1743 pre-Culloden Scottish Highlands, where she meets two men that will change her life: Jamie Fraser, the handsome young Scot who selflessly saves her, marries her and falls in love with her, and Blackjack Randall, the sadistic British Captain intent on her capture who is also her husband Frank’s distant relative.