A Plot Summary: THE SPELL OF VAUGIRARD  unlocks a real deal 21st century technology.

THE SPELL OF VAUGIRARD is a thriller sci-fi science epic that utilizes storytelling to engage audiences in a fun technology, MEND™ – musical encode decode. The story spans several generations of a powerful dynasty. The family has a volatile secret about to impact our 21st century world.

The prequel book is entitled: THE SKELETON SCORE. It is 175 pages. The story is narrated by the protagonist, Lily Barrington. Lily finds herself at the center of a family fight. The fight is over the valuable estate of her mother – in law, the matriarch Rose Barrington. As we learn about the characters, a Dickens-like story of combat unfolds. The dynasty wields tremendous power in the global world. Rose’s son Henry Barrington has invented a new technology. The new technology is based on the family’s ability to trade internationally. Their mysterious power stems from a musical puzzle buried in their ancestral village. As the narrative opens, centuries of urban development have blanketed the original ancestral village. The MEND™ Device is programmed to restore the original village structure and its significance. Rose who has many affairs to protect, uncovers a plot involving her estate. Her ability to retain control, as she turns over her power will test her mettle and stamina. The technology is at great risk for ill-use.
[To discover more about the Skeleton Score Book series, contact Mardi-Ellen Hill].

The public gets wind of the family’s fight when the daughter of Lily and Henry, Rachel Barrington is murdered . Rachel is an 18-year-old star making a name for herself on the world stage. Her death prompts the media to leak volatile details of the unfinished invention. The leak ups the ante of the fight. News travels with lightening speed. It casts suspicion on the many motives of the family members. As her daughter dies, Lily Barrington becomes the prime suspect and fall guy for a family unable to face lies that have followed them for centuries. Lily is in mortal danger. Her life hinges on the need for the players to keep her alive long enough to get the key that will open the startling village power. Lily’s memory is ignited by the tune left behind by Rachel, “Rae’s Theme“. Her signature song leads us back to the old village, and unlocks the puzzle for generations to come.

Mardi-Ellen Hill is a composer, author and playwright. In the 1990s she was awarded two NEA grants for a new American work in Opera Music theatre. In the last decade she has won many other prestigious awards. The new narrative platform and technology MEND™ is founded on her award-winning play “VAUGIRARD.”

Read an article describing the journey unlocking the path to MEND™, written prior to the full development of MEND™. It is now complete.

“Sol Mi Do Re” opens the vault

The Saga:
A story about a powerful and dangerous dynasty. The Barringtons are an American family with a 21st century global business. A secret vault houses their history and their encryption technology.

Their Secret: 
A child in Paris has been programmed for the first eight years of her life to recognize and notate a musical pattern. The noted pattern turns the family estate into value in multiple territories around the world, at the transference of the family inheritance.

The Access: 
The child’s notebook holds clues to the originating microcosm of their gene pool. Their family structure shapes our macro world.

The Pattern: 
A puzzle and prophesy that appears in chapter one of the prequel book: THE SKELETON SCORE. Four syllables of  musical solfeggio: Sol Mi Do Re opens the vault.

The Stage: 
The place where the musical puzzle brings the original family scheme back to life. As the star Rachel leaves her performance, she is murdered. She was about to write down this pattern.  Rae’s theme is left on earth for all global readers and users to follow in order for the family’s MEND™ – musical encode decode technology to be learned and used.

The Guide: 
Lily Barrington, mother of the star, and of the child in Paris, Lily is the wife of the inventor, Henry Barrington.   This sexy duo shares secrets you will need to uncover before you can ride on the thrilling wave of MEND™! Rae’s theme is capable of bringing all of the character voices back to life through the voice of Lily Barrington. But as you will see, Lily has herself in quite a jam in a freeze frame action surrounding U.S ownership of the MEND™ technology.

Scroll down for entry into the family vault.  Click on Meet The Melody Makers for a quick who’s who in the family!

THE SPELL OF VAUGIRARD is a cross entertainment media platform that chronicles the lives of the powerful Barrington dynasty. Unlocking the dynasty’s origin is a thrilling and dangerous voyage. The story itself introduces and propels a new technology based on the Barrington character’s private messaging operating system. The theft of MEND™ – musical encode decode, by one of the dynasty members, allows the public to enter the story. A news leak breaks out a diabolical twist of fate, surrounding the murder of a BARRINGTON STAR singer, Rachel Barrington.

The Cloistered Vault

The leak casts suspicion on the full circle of people who handled Rachel’s career, including her mother, father and grandmother, arch Matriarch Rose Barrington. Along with news of Rachel’s passing, we hear how her inventor father, Henry Barrington has modeled his new invention, on the ancestral path of her amazing voice. And that the invention has been held up for years over an internal family fight with his cousin, software designer Charles Hobbes. Charles is always one step ahead of everyone in the family. His covert actions, escape notice on this day.  Everyone had been awaiting news of the Matriarch’s retirement. Now the murder and the invention have taken center stage. As the prequel book THE SKELETON SCORE opens, Charles has quietly taken MEND™ and engraved the family origination seal in the elevator keypad at the hotel in D.C where Lily Barrington, mother of the star is staying. Unbeknownst to Lily, she is soon to be inheritor of the family estate. Only Lily’s personal entry into the elevator cab, and her own hand on the engraved keypad will activate the family private MEND™ system. The human transfer and activation of software meets hardware has to be a perfect match for the inheritance to be legal and fully messaged/ documented in the Barrington secret cryo-vault. Lily is set up for a trap – a trap for her to speak and incriminate herself by narrating one of the biggest plots the U.S. has ever waged in the history of the world. Scroll down to the previous post to see the elevator and how the messaging system works to light up the world with the U.S. message alert!