St. Ronan's Well

About the book

"St. Ronan's Well" by Walter Scott is a novel first published in 1824. Set in a fashionable Scottish spa town, it tells the story of two half-brothers—Valentine Bulmer, Earl of Etherington, and Francis Tyrrel—who both seek to marry Clara Mowbray. Their rivalry conceals dark secrets from the past, including betrayal, a mysterious ceremony, and deception. As tensions escalate through duels and gambling debts, the truth threatens to destroy Clara and expose the earl's carefully constructed lies.