During its one hundred year reign as one of the best Roman Catholic boarding schools in the country, Villa Vistamar was home to many young women -particularly politically vulnerable, but wealthy young women- from all parts of the world. Brought back by a class reunion, two former resident students haunted by the unexplained mysteries encountered in their youth, have set out to expose the secrets of the old Southwestern estate and the strange relationship between the Sisters of St. Thomas and and their benefactor. Convinced that the key to the mysteries must be hidden away in the macabre old trunks that fill the basement of the old convent, a late-night escapade into the catacombs of the old abbey literally swallows them into -and past- the point of no return from their journey into Church history and intrigue. Several frightening encounters with Church Sentinels guarding the very secrets that the women have determined to unshroud, along with the death of an elderly nun and former Mother Superior of the order, leads the women to the discovery of a millionaire cache of priceless jewels that protect a far greater treasure; that which the Church has shielded from the world for nine decades of Eastern European history, under the ecclesiastical code name of Salve Regina.
About the Author: Erica Fuentes A successful attorney and author of several non-fiction books before bursting into the world of mainstream fiction, Erica Fuentes has delighted her readers with tales of intrigue, romance and international politics beginning in 2000 with her release of Island Dreams, followed by Miguel's Cantina (First Love), A Window To Paradise, and Hearts Ahoy in 2002. Las Chicas de Palacio (Shakedown), Fuentes latest novel released in June 2007 and currently being adapted into a screenplay, holds fast on the best seller list in Mexico. All of Erica's novels have been published simultaneously in two versions: English and Spanish. Erica's The Hunt Club, on which Salve Regina, the Series was born, will be published by Casablanca after the series' third book. After many years abroad carrying out diplomatic and corporate assignments, Fuentes currently lives in her beach home somewhere... Annemarie Stonewater A Master of History, Annemarie Stonewater triumphed in the world of mainstream fiction in the United States and Great Britain with her series of successful historical novels: Kindred Spirits, Montana Brides and Land of Gold written under the pseudonyms of DeAnn Patrick and Mary Ann Hammond. After many active years spent in the world of Academia and Historical Research, Annemarie has returned to her first passion of writing, the results being a new collaboration with Erica Fuentes in a series of Ecclesiastical Intrigues. Annemarie currently lives between her homes in Upstate New York and Mexico.