'Saint Ronan's Well' is one of the Waverley novels by Sir Walter Scott. It is set in a fashionable spa in the Scottish Borders and is the only novel he wrote with a 19th-century setting. The story revolves around the rivalry of two men: Valentine Bulmer, the Earl of Etherington, and his half-brother Francis Tyrrel, both of whom are vying for the affections of Miss Clara Mowbray, the sister of John, the laird of Saint Ronan's.