Dark omens shadow the romance of Edgar, Master of Ravenwood, and Lucy Ashton, daughter of the man who through force dispossessed the Ravenwood family of their ancestral home. Scott's gothic romance weaves the personal and historic in a tale of love and revenge set amidst the political factionalism of Scotland after the Act of Union of 1707. With a text drawn from the "Magnum" edition of 1830, this annotated edition also includes an appendix on relevant Scottish history and a glossary of Scots words and legal terminology.