The Officer's Code (The Schellendorf Series)

In 1912, failing at Cambridge reading Law, Eric Foster rebels against his father’s rigid plans for his future as a barrister. While searching to control his own destiny Eric falls in love with the daughter of a minor German baron. To prove his worth to Brigitte’s aristocratic family, he exploits the old family connections of his German mother to buy a commission in an elite Prussian cavalry regiment. By joining the most respected, most powerful stratum of Imperial German society, he opens the way to marry his beloved only months before the outbreak of World War One, the war to end all wars. As a new young cavalry officer caught by war, can Eric stay true to the powerful German Officer's Code of honour? And if he does, can he ever again go home to England?

Lyn Alexander began writing when she was twelve and has never stopped. When she was seventeen, she walked out of high school under a cloud, and a few weeks later on her eighteenth birthday, she ran away to enlist in the Royal Canadian Air Force. In boot camp, she was abruptly introduced to a challenging life of discipline, physical effort, teamwork, drill and regulations. She quickly picked up pride in the uniform and in herself, pride in duty, honour, fidelity, and high principle. Eight years later, she was commissioned from the ranks, so she was privileged to experience military life from two distinct perspectives. While in the RCAF, Lyn penned her first novel, Steelwalker that was sold to Doubleday, but never published. She eventually resigned her commission to study veterinary medicine, mainly because at that time in history there were no advancement opportunities for women in uniform. It took her ten hard years to work her way through university to a veterinary degree. For the next thirty-two years, she practiced small-animal veterinary medicine and surgery, specialising in exotics and reptiles, before retiring to write full time.