A SEQUEL TO BRAVEHEART - A PREQUEL TO THE DA VINCI CODE The Mab's Cross Trilogy is an epic love story set in the 14th Century. Society was in upheaval. Magna Carta had awakened the promise of human rights, the Roman Church was crumbling from within, famine ravaged the land, the French king hijacked the Holy See to Avign and annihilated the Knights Templar, a band of starving Scots humiliated the English at Banckburn, and Edward II died in a Welsh dungeon. Yet, in the lawless marchlands of Lancashire, Sir William Bradshaw and his Lady Mab refused to surrender their dreams to the chaos, and their love for each other created a legend that will t die. The ruins of the cross that bears Mab's name can still be seen on the Standishgate in Wigan, Lancashire. After 700 years, it remains as a humble tribute to a ble dream. The story of that cross reveals a world torn by tyranny and rebellion, faith and betrayal, hot-blooded chivalry and cold-blooded murder; and yet it also celebrates the rebirth of Reason after a thousand years of darkness.