Annie Dawson is hard to intimidate. She has stood up to thieves, con men and murders in the three years since she came to live in Stony Point, Maine. But even she has to shudder when an eagle attacks her and her friends. It seems someone is intent on scaring her away from the answer to her latest mystery. While looking for a basket in the attic of Gray Gables, the Victorian home she inherited from her maternal grandmother. Betsy Holden, Annie discovers a Celtic sporran containing several ferrules, the silver fittings of a set of bagpipes. Amy knows her lineage held from Scotland, but neither of her grandparents had told her about the sporran or the ferrules.