Gerald Tyler was born in Leeds UK in 1938 and educated at Sedbergh School and St Johns College Cambridge where he read law and later qualified as a solicitor. After over twenty-five years in private practice he retired to the Yorkshire Dales and began writing. His interests include local history the theater and watercolor painting. Foreign travel has taken him throughout Europe to Egypt and South Africa with several trips to India doing charity in rural villages and extensively to Family in the USA. He now lives in Texas with his artist wife Rima. His First novel Return to Darjeeling is set in World War II UK and India. In The Lonsdales of Ainley Hall an impeding family tragedy takes Martin Lonsdale to South Africa and later finding a wife in Annabelle from Savanah Georgia. In Tides of Fortune Tom Moffat's story unfolds introducing him to newly elevated Sir Martin and Lady Annabelle and all find themselves playing complimentary roles in While Cannons Roar against a background of the Crimean War.. In Moffat Sahib Tom is once again building railways but this time in India during the Mutiny where he renews his friendship with Colonel Arthur Stillwell and Amelia Lonsdale. Hector Fallon's Legacy brings Colonel Stillwell back to Yorkshire to become embroiled in the lives of Tom and Amelia Moffat, the Lonsdales and an Indian Prince. The saga may eve continue with Stillwell representing the British interests in the American Civil War.