Ultimately, the series will consist of seven books. The first one, Fidelis,was published on December 1st of 2006. The site is also home to a fantasy role playing game based on the series. It can be accessed using the link to the left.

Description: “Fidelis” follows the path of a man waking up in a broken world that is pockmarked from nuclear strikes and still coping with the lingering effects of a terrible disease. In discovering the new landscape of America, he discovers the equally new landscape of his own soul. Filled with adventure and warfare, as equally compelling is its attempt to explore concepts of truth, valor, manhood, and destiny. In “Fidelis” the crutches of society have collapsed. In this setting, the intangible characteristics that make the human race indomitable are permitted expression. Indeed, they are encouraged. “Fidelis” is the first book of seven in the “Birth Pangs” series by author A.R. Horvath.

The term “Birth Pangs” is derived from a passage from the book of Romans in the Christian Scriptures:

“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed. For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the one that subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time…” Romans 8:18-22.

This is not just another ‘end times’ series. Read the passage again.