SEVEN of the CROSS

The year was 1725 and the Spanish Inquisition had all but ended. To celebrate the remodeling of the Templo Eucarístico de San Martín in Madrid, the church had orchestrated a ceremonial trial and auto-de-fe, the processional of the guilty, designed to bring the less-than-faithful back to the church rather than punish heretics. The auto-de-fe was interrupted when word came of a miracle occurring in the templo. The Madonna had begun to shed bloody tears. Bruno Mancini, a prelate whose jurisdiction included special investigations for the Pope, was assigned the task of investigating those tears as well as the sudden influx of satanic murders. With the help of a templo monk, Raul, who takes precise records of the investigation, Bruno began his work and an epic battle of spiritual warriors is set into motion. Sifting through computer files in a Paris medical office trying to validate miraculous claims related to the beatification of Pope John Paul wasn't exactly what Kevin Bridges expected when he quit the FBI and signed on as the Vatican's newest miracle investigator. Nor was he expecting to get brought into a life or death battle with Satan's evil Nephilim that had begun three hundred years earlier in Madrid with a series of macabre and grotesque murders. The same type of murders that someone was now trying to pin on him