The Vendettas: brother duo originally poor debtors from Italy now dominate southern trade they are the upstart tycoons of the south creating a massive wealth under there family name as cold hearted merchants and pirates. Now living in Savannah and New Orleans they are the mafia of trade.
Montigo (Monty) vendetta~ the oldest of the two brothers and a ruthless privateer and theif , supporting his large pack with stolen goods and money earned from the trade. Extremely handsome and dashing, a sly charmer with his dark bedroom eyes and rugged facial hair.
Niccolo Vendetta- younger one of the two sons thrill seeker and charming bachelor but a bit naive and stupid at times usually needs his brother to bail him out of trouble dark hair and eyes cleanly shaven
Maximum Vendetta-a cousin of the brothers, charming, handsome, untrustworthy man in his early twenties, short brown hair and olive skin

The Blackwoods:Straitlaced English merchants just invested in a plantation plantation with the cotton aristocracy in south Carolina to raise there daughters on hoping to make they're liberal daughters more conservative and moral by
surrounding them with Southern life.
Charles Blackwood- older Englishman and fine gentleman of nobility and wealth intelligent man of the future but morally backward light brown greying hair and blue eyes
Elizabeth Blackwood- conservative women dark brown hair and green beady eyes bossy and unforgiving she whips her daughter's into being fine young ladies
Eleanor Blackwood- brown haired oldest daughter with brown eyes very serious and regal she is much like her mother 24 years old
Felicity Blackwood- dark haired daughter with pretty green eyes she is the light hearted charming one always into making things positive 19 years old
Angeline Blackwood- youngest daughter with golden brown hair and blue eyes like her father very liberal in her ideas and dreams of adventure 16 years old

The LeFievres: French Canadian merchants, they have huge western claims in California and do much business in New Orleans friends to the Vendettas they are powerfully wealthy
Cordelia LeFievre- beautiful frenchwoman and most wealthy women in Paris she has beautiful black curls and green eyes always up on the latest gossip and fashion marrying a LeFievre helped increase the family wealth
Alphonse Lefievre~ boyish black curls frame his handsome face and personify his fun loving, immature, irrisponsible attitude, a son to Cordelia and loved by everyone, around 19 years old
Adelaide Lefievre-Alphonse's younger sister, 16, long black hair like her mother's, shy and quiet, a bookworm, very smart

The Williams: The long time South plantation family they are the richest planters in the south and the most conservative they are friends of the Blackwoods and prime cotton outputers
Shay Williams-old southern planters white hair light eyes cruel and unforgiving pro South and very racist
Matilda Williams- smaller women whitening hair and light eyes very strait laced and conservative like Elizabeth they're friends
Dalton Williams- hier to the plantation light haired with light eyes pro south very mature engaged to Eleanor
Dixie Williams- the biggest southern belle in all of South Carolina she is beautifully
blonde and blue eyed and a perfect lady but also the biggest queen bee since she is the daughter of the most influential man in the state 17 years old

The Ryan's: Another plantation family less large and influential but the Blackwood neighbors very kind people but rumored to be slave sympathizers because of the excellent care they are given.
Henrietta Ryan-kind mistress of the plantation blonde haired women with brown eyes
Agnus Ryan~ gorgeous Aristocrat, signiture golden hair, dark navy coloured blue eyes, ruby lips and stubbornness, a true Ryan at heart, currently after the heart of the youngest vendetta brother
Summer Ryan- cute and fun daughter of the Ryans she always wears bright colors and is very kind to everyone like her mother 15 years old