An amateur historian defies the academic establishment in her efforts to find King Richard III's remains, which were lost for over 500 years.

The story of Claire Randall, a married combat nurse from 1945 who is mysteriously swept back in time to 1743, where she is immediately thrown into an unknown world where her life is threatened. When she is forced to marry Jamie, a chivalrous and romantic young Scottish warrior, a passionate affair is ignited that tears Claire's heart between two vastly different men in two irreconcilable lives.

Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.