"Glasgow for Bertie is the promised land: a city of pies and of Irn-Bru, far from his controlling mother, Irene - whose cold-water therapy has landed her in choppy waters off the coast of Aberdeen. But how will Bertie respond to the news of a proposed merger of the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow? And a new member of Bertie's class, Galactica MacFee, is causing ripples in his social set. In Stirling, Bruce's latest venture leads to an astonishing new discovery: a Pictish stone that may hold the key to what Scotland's culture was like in the Early Middle Ages. But this discovery may be better left in the past." -- Back cover