The Reaper's Design

Freemasons, Monks, Blood Oaths, and Monasteries.

Prologue:

Set in the modern-day - December. Three South African sisters, Monique, an architect at Doric Designs, Siobhan, a commercial pilot with Qantas, and Xara, a music student, had to deal with the dreadful news of their father's involvement in a vehicle collision in Prague. They receive this shattering news in a mysterious manner via an unknown Hotel owner in Prague, who had knowledge of their father's Will. Coerced to travel to Prague, the three sisters are pulled into an ancient forgotten world where people still refer to one another as sisters and brethren, as Freemasons, European Monks and Buddhists try to protect them. For their protection, they are initiated into a world still ruled by moon phases, candles, incense, Latin, sign language and Biblical Angels; a realm at odds with the pharmaceutical industry. The "Ankh", the ancient Egyptian symbol of everlasting life is portrayed against the "Reaper" associated with the finality of death. Banned manuscripts in the Philosophical Hall of the Strahov monastery complex - the Premonstratensian monastery founded in 1140 and contains the church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary - in Prague, play a central role in this. The sisters also finally understand why their father would lock away something as seemingly trivial as incense, in a safe...