Kriegsspielen is not just an ordinary sport. It's a strengthening exercise that turns inexperienced boys into strong men. It provides discipline, familiarizes the participants with the armed forces, teaches about the importance of teamwork, and creates friendships that last forever.
All attendees must know the basics of rifle handling, usage of explosives, operating and maintaining a tank, basic survival techniques, close combat tactics, and in special cases even flying a plane or commanding a battleship to fully participate.
Kriegsspielen is the perfect way to utilize massive amounts of leftover equipment and keep on training new generations of soldiers loyal to the state, and all that without violating the agreements made in Lisabon.
Only by implicating it as a natural part of daily day life, can a militaristic state like the United German Nationalistic Federal Republics, the direct successor of the Third Reich, maintain its militaristic society. Without it, the whole system that has ruled in the lands of the German people for decades now would crumble under its own weight. Everyone who has grown up in this system and believed in it their whole life would be stripped of ideals and betrayed.
The government of UGNFR knows this, and they will do anything in their power to achieve their goal.
Just when she's decided to leave the Town, Lady Cressida Belverst is forced to marry Lord Calan Haverston, the man who coincidentally knows a way out. Agreeing to marry for all the wrong reasons, can Cressida and Calan find out where their hearts truly belong?
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It is impossible to leave the Town, but one woman is determined to escape with the help of her betrothed.
Lady Cressida Belverst has always been judged as a walking scandal. Oh, how she tries (on some rare occasions) to be proper! When her parents arrange for her to marry a rich lord, Cressida has had enough. She has to leave the Town because she will not be forced to live with a man she doesn't love. But what happens if the very man she's betrothed to is the only one who can help her get out?
Calan Haverston, the Lord of Easton, takes the risk and helps his betrothed by using his knowledge of the Town's secrets because he is as willing as she to stay free of marriage for reasons completely different. He has dark secrets he cannot share with her, and his life is not one he can likewise open to anyone. But what happens when she leaves after awakening desires he thought he has under control? And what happens when he finds himself longing for her?
Cressida goes to a completely different place, one she has only heard in stories and read in books, with hopes of finding what her heart has always longed for. But love, mystery and secrets will chase her and it will only be a matter of time before she realizes what her heart truly desires.
*This story is a standalone title in the Haverston Family series.