Scotland, 1679: the Covenanters rise against the government of Charles II, and Henry Morton, a moderate young laird, is pulled into rebellion after sheltering a fugitive. Loyal to neither extreme, he finds himself facing Claverhouse’s dragoons while Edith Bellenden, whom he loves, waits in a besieged royalist tower.
Scott’s even-handed novel of religious civil war, published in 1816 among the Tales of My Landlord. Download the free EPUB.