Steven O’Reilly
PIA FIDELIS is a historical-fiction trilogy which tells a tale of war, adventure, and romance amidst a crumbling empire and the rising Shadow of the Antichrist.Book I of the PIA FIDELIS series, The Two Kingdoms, begins in 351 AD as civil war looms between the Eastern and Western Roman Empires, and the Arian crisis rages within the Church....in Rome, Septimus must lead his legion as it marches to war, leaving behind the woman he is to marry...but both his hope to one day return to her, and his very life are threatened by betrayal......In Constantinople, a young woman named Melissa attracts the interest of dangerous and powerful men as she encounters adventures of her own, even as her parents seek to marry her off to a man she does not love......And all the while, as the Eastern emperor plots to impose Arianism upon the Church, his cousin Julian is instructed in the Dark Arts by a sorcerer who, it seems, can summon the ancient gods of the Greeks and Romans. In time, these ’gods’ will reveal to Julian their plan for his future...a future in which the fate of the empire, the Church, and the lives of many may one day hang in the balance... 3
