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.