The the first book of the series, The Clothier’s Daughter, we meet Emma Braithwaite. Emma is from a respected family of successful clothiers – merchants who organized the production of wool fabrics, employing hundreds of wool combers, spinners, weavers and dyers across the West Riding of Yorkshire.
In The Clothier’s Daughter, Emma has second cousins who run a rival business, the old Braithwaite family company having been split into two when their respective grandfathers argued.
When I was writing the book I had to work out the Braithwaite family history. If you’ve read the book and wondered about the family connections, I’ve drawn up a family tree to illustrate them. It’s a PDF file, and you can download it by clicking on the link:
Naturally, because this is a romance series, some of Emma’s relations will (eventually) have their own books!