The Reaper's Design

Prologue:

Set in the modern day - December. Three South African sisters, Monique, an architect at Doric Designs, Siobhan, a commercial pilot with Quantas, 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 last wishes in his 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 almost 900-year-old Strahov monastery library in Prague play a central role in this, and the trio learns of the obscure links between European and Tibetan Monastic members and the Ancient Free and Accepted Masons. They also finally understand why their father would lock away something a trivial as incense, in a safe...