Margaret Morgan

Margaret (Maggie) Alderman-Morgan ~ Third wife of Charles Morgan~Mother of Joseph and Michelle Morgan

After three years of marriage, Margaret has found herself madly in love with her husband. Despite their rough beginning and arranged marriage for the tidy sum of one years worth of crops. Unfortunately before her dowry could be paid in full her father passed, against her wishes Charles used the money to purchase four mares to breed with his gift from the Vis-count. A Venture that has proven against her own reservations fruitful for her he has managed to sell the first two and has offers on the others.

Ava Morgan-Carmichael

Ava Morgan-Carmichael daughter of Charles Talley Aka Charles Morgan and Annette Carmichael Aka Annette Morgan Lady of Wilshire.

Strong willed, intelligent and morally centered Ava has had the duties of raising her younger sister Catherine since she was five years of age. She lives to agitate her grandmother by doing her best to buck against the conventional rules of the days society.

On her sixteenth birthday She met Henry the one in whom she believed to be her future. Yet as time progressed and she found of her nobility not all is at it seems. Will she ever find out exactly what crime her mother committed, how will her father tie into the entire ordeal and what is she going to do about the handsome stranger that has come to the month long house party in recognition of her entering society?

Charles Morgan

Charles Talley, Currently going by the alias of Morgan, Former Vis-Count of Bruns~ Son of Edward and Noreen Talley~Duke and Duchess of Bruns

A doting father to his illegitimate daughters, Ava and Catherine. He gave up his title, marriage and unborn child for the love of his mistress, Annette Carmichael, Lady of Wilshire when her scandalous pregnancy was found.

At first duty and honor to his noble blood line prevented him from agreeing to the terms set forth that he take the second passage on the ship with his mistress. Yet as he escorted her aboard the ship in which was to take her to the America's he found himself incapable of losing his one true love, setting sail that very night both were presumed deceased.

On the day of his eldest daughter, Ava's sixteenth birthday, he married Margaret Alderman. As a matter of convience for he was also to collect Beatrice Carmichael, Duchess of Wilshire. Three years later his current wife birthed twins, a boy, Joseph and a girl Michelle, yet as much as he loves his youngest children, Charles heart is still incomplete without the girls that he had raised since Annette's death fourteen years prior while in labor with their son, Samuel Morgan who passed a short week after his birth.