DRAGONFLY IN AMBER is the second in my OUTLANDER series of major novels, and was first published in the U.S.A. on July 1, 1992.
25th Anniversary Edition
For those people who have been asking if/when Random House, my main publisher in the U.S.A., might be going to do special Anniversary editions of the books following OUTLANDER… yes, they are!
The new 25th Anniversary edition of DRAGONFLY IN AMBER is now available! (See the cover art at right.) It was released in the U.S.A. and some international markets on October 24, 2017. The other versions of DRAGONFLY are still available, so be sure you are ordering the new “25th Anniversary Edition” if it is the one you want. Please look for it at your local independent bookstore. If you prefer to order online, here are some quick links to order the anniversary edition in hardcover or ebook:
- Want a new hardcover signed by me, but can’t come to one of my events? Click here for information or to order a signed copy from the Poisoned Pen bookstore. My signature is no extra charge, but you do pay for shipping. The Pen sells all of my books and ships anywhere in the world!
- Order the 25th Anniversary Edition from Amazon (U.S.A.).
- Order the 25th Anniversary edition from Barnes & Noble.
The new cover for the 25th anniversary edition of DRAGONFLY is the same nice faux-leather, padded-feeling kind as the OUTLANDER 20th Anniversary edition! That’s Master Raymopnd’s goblet—the one he dropped the poison in when he killed the Comte at the King’s Star Chamber witchcraft trial. Remember Claire’s poison-stone going black?
Editions of DRAGONFLY
Multiple editions of DRAGONFLY IN AMBER are available for purchase, including hardcover, paperback, audio, and ebook formats in the U.S.A. and many international markets. Please use the pull-down menus at left for purchasing links of the non-anniversary editions, or contact your local independent bookstore.
About DRAGONFLY
At right is the artwork from the dust jacket of the first hardcover edition of DRAGONFLY IN AMBER from 1992.
DRAGONFLY IN AMBER carries on the story begun in OUTLANDER, but begins with a brief framing story set in 1968, in which Claire Randall visits a young Oxford don named Roger MacKenzie in Inverness, in search of answers for her daughter, Brianna. Her request is unusual; she has a list of names, Jacobite soldiers who fought with Prince Charles Edward Stuart’s army, who took part in the disastrous battle at Culloden in 1746. What happened to these men, she asks, following the battle? Roger is surprised at her intensity, but intrigued at her question—and intrigued even more by her red-haired daughter. The answer to Roger’s search leads all three to an unexpected grave—and to a revelation that will turn all their lives inside-out.
Claire tells Roger and Brianna what happened during the year before the Stuart Rising: the political intrigues, the chain of spying, betrayal, and murder that led her and her husband James Fraser from the court of Louis XV to the windswept moors of the Scottish Highlands and the blood-soaked ground of Culloden. The horrifying trap of circumstance and honor that sent her back to the future—and the present set of circumstances that have led her to her quest, and to a still more shocking revelation.
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