The Shadow of Lallybroch
Elara Wyn de Roslin never believed in destiny, only in stories.
A historian and linguist from post-war Scotland, she spends her days buried in forgotten manuscripts and her nights tracing the haunting romance of Claire Randall and Jamie Fraser. But fascination turns to fate when a strange hum calls her to Craigh na Dun, and the stones answer.
Swept through time into the 18th-century Highlands, Elara awakens in a land on the edge of rebellion, and in a life that was never meant to be hers. The world she once read about now breathes around her: the scent of peat smoke, the cry of ravens, and the heat of a man’s defiant gaze. Jamie Fraser.
But Elara is not Claire. She is something else, something the stones themselves seem to have chosen. A shadow to the healer’s light. A second chance the universe whispered into existence. Her presence begins to alter what was once written: battles unfold differently, alliances shift, and hearts that should never have met begin to entwine.
As she becomes entangled in the fates of Jamie and Claire, Elara must decide whether she is there to protect their love, or to rewrite it. Each choice she makes ripples through time, blurring the line between destiny and desire, sacrifice and salvation.
Torn between the man history says she cannot have and the duty to the woman who must live, Elara learns that love, in any century, demands surrender. And when the stones call her again, she must choose what story will endure, and whose heart will be left in the echoes of time.
