"No one in Scotland can escape from the past. It is everywhere,
haunting like a ghost."
Geddes MacGregor
Does the Scottish Thistle Amulet have unescapable mystic properties related
to the past?
When Riley ad her cousin Charlie learn of a priceless, stolen Scottish thistle
antiquity on their visit to the Edinburgh Museum in Scotland, the temptation to
uncover its whereabouts lures them into a conspiracy scheme with their new
friends, the McGregor twins. Deliberately ignoring Riley's parents' warning not
to engage in any amateur detective capers, the four sleuths choose to pursue
what they think is a harmless investigation.
The lines between right and wrong become blurred as the four detectives
create a prickly situation of their own by withholding their sleuthing escapades
from Riley's parents.
The exhilarating expectation of fi nding the lost treasure unwittingly tangles
them in a thorny plot by a maniacal criminal who'll stop at nothing to protect
an unlawful, lucrative enterprise. Strange, haunting, threatening events are
shrugged off by the teens. How could they know that every clue they fi nd will
become an entanglement that, in the end, could possibly lead to their demise.