In-store promotion: Dumpbin, header, poster. Consumer advertising: National press, nationwide outdoor posters at rail stations and shopping malls. Consumer promotion: Author visit to the UK for media interviews and bookshop events. The author's website is www.cco.caltech.edu/~gatti/gabaldon. Track Record: This title sold a staggering 175,000 copies in trade paperback format whilst Arrow Gabaldon backlist sales now top 1m copies. (Temporary)

The fifth epic tale in the world-wide bestselling series of novels featuring time travellers Claire and Jamie Fraser in which the setting is North Carolina in 1771 where the conflict between the rich colonial planters and the struggling back country pioneers is threatening to explode. Jamie is a man of property but Claire is known notoriously as a witch. And she knows that they must survive the dangers of the oncoming Revolution.

Diana Gabaldon is the international bestselling author of five previous historical novels - Cross Stitch, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn and The Fiery Cross, and one work of non-fiction, Through the Stones. She lives with her family and a lot of other assorted wildlife in Scottsdale, Arizona.