A probe of today's scientific enigmas forms a believable base for a compelling story of a sixteen year old girl's sudden search for her presumed dead father. Maggie Flynn initially uncovers dark evidence that her father, and others, may have fallen victim to insidious medical experiments conducted under the guise of a greater good behind the sacred walls of the Abbey of Saint Rose in Eastern Europe. A silver frog and a Cyrillic symbol are all Maggie has to thread her father's disappearance from this isolated religious order, to an invisible underworld conglomerate, to the outer fringes of her world as she knows it. This quick-paced quest eventually forces open a locked door to an ancient covenant protected till death by the last of the Red Gypsies, and hidden for centuries by the Brothers of the Sacred Mysteries. Melluma Pergamino - The Black Parchments may hold the key to answering a time-drenched query. Were we ever alone?