The Midnight Breed Series Companion

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THE

MIDNIGHT BREED SERIES

COMPANION

 

The ultimate insider’s guide to the New York Times and #1 internationally best-selling vampire romance series

 

LARA ADRIAN

 

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Part human, part otherworldly, the Breed has lived among humankind in secret for thousands of years . . . and now fans of the popular, best-selling Midnight Breed Series can delve deeper than ever before into this hidden, seductive race of vampires and the dark, thrilling universe they inhabit.

 

A book that’s been years in the making, the Midnight Breed Series Companion includes insider info on all of the novels, author notes on the creation of the story world and how the eleven-book (and counting!) series has evolved since its beginning as a contracted trilogy, a complete character guide, series trivia, questions from readers and more.

 

This special series companion also includes “A Touch of Midnight”—an all-new, never before published, original novella featuring Gideon and Savannah, which finally reveals the story of how this reader favorite couple met and fell in love, and answers many questions that fans have been curious about since the series began!

 

 

Praise for the Midnight Breed series

 

“One of the consistently best paranormal series out there . . . Adrian writes compelling individual stories within a larger story arc that is unfolding with a refreshing lack of predictability.” –Romance Novel News

 

“Adrian’s strikingly original Midnight Breed series delivers an abundance of nail-biting suspenseful chills, red-hot sexy thrills, an intricately built world, and realistically complicated and conflicted protagonists . . . ” –Booklist

 

“One of the best paranormal series around . . . a must-read series.” –Fresh Fiction

 

“A well-written, action-packed series that is just getting better with age.” –Fiction Vixen

 

“[An] adrenaline-fueled, sizzlingly sexy, darkly intense . . . addictively readable series.”
  –Chicago Tribune

 

 

About the Author

 

LARA ADRIAN is a New York Times and #1 internationally best-selling author with nearly 4 million books in print worldwide and translations licensed in more than 19 countries. She lives in New England with her husband, where she is curre
ntly at work on her next novel.

 

To learn more about her books and to sign up for her email newsletter, visit
www.LaraAdrian.com
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

 

This book has been a work-in-progress for a couple of years now--much longer than that, if I am to count all of the thought and planning that went into the development of the Midnight Breed series from the time I first began writing it and adding pages of notes to my series "bible."

 

At first, I expected my notes would remain as background material whose only purpose was to help me remember my own series lore and character stats. But along the way, as the series gained popularity and readers started emailing me with thought-provoking questions about one thing or another, or asked me at book signings to explain things about the Ancients or the Breed or the Breedmates that wasn't necessarily in the text of the books, I realized that it could be fun to share all of my "insider info" with the fans of the series who had grown to love the Midnight Breed perhaps as much as I do.

 

I've had a lot of help from my husband and support staff at various times in compiling and editing the material contained in this Companion book, but no one has been more instrumental than my awesome Facebook admin and assistant (who also happens to be my lovely step-daughter and the mother of my first grandchild!) Heather Rogers. Thank you, Heather, for all of your effort, creativity and patience. I love you!

 

Of course, neither this book nor any of the others I've written would be possible without the love and encouragement of my husband, or the enthusiasm and support from you, my dear reader.

 

This book is for all of you, with love and gratitude.

Contents

 

 

 

Cover Page

Acknowledgments

 

Introduction by Lara Adrian

The Midnight Breed Series Story World

Ancients

The Breed

Breedmates

Rituals

The Order

Glossary of Terms

The Novels

Kiss of Midnight

Kiss of Crimson

Midnight Awakening

Midnight Rising

Veil of Midnight

Ashes of Midnight

Shades of Midnight

Taken by Midnight

Deeper Than Midnight

A Taste of Midnight

Darker After Midnight

Novella: A Touch of Midnight (Gideon & Savannah's story)

Character Reference Guide

Reader Q&A

Questions for Lara Adrian

Questions for the Characters

Midnight Breed Series Trivia

Who Am I?

Am I Dead or Alive?

First Kisses

Lost and Found

What Book Am I In?

Whose Breedmate Mark is Located Here?

True or False?

Where Did I First See My Mate?

Good Guy or Bad Guy?

Midnight Breed Talent Show

Who Said This?

Dead People We Never Got to Meet

Trivia Scoring: How did you do?

The Midnight Breed Series Around the World

The Future of the Midnight Breed Series

Lara Adrian Biography

Connect Online with Lara Adrian

 

Resources for Writers

Sign up for Lara Adrian's email newsletter

Links to more Lara Adrian novels

Bibliography

Copyright

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction by Lara Adrian

 

 

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had a deep love of books. Although neither of my parents are avid readers, they made sure my siblings and I had library cards in elementary school and a couple of dollars to spend when the Bookmobile came around to our small hometown in Michigan. I can still remember the wonder I felt—and the agonizing indecision—every time I wandered the aisles of the public library or perused the tables of brand-new books set out for consideration in the traveling Bookmobile. It was always so hard to choose just one or two!

Other kids saved their pennies for candy or the latest cool toys. I could never get enough books. I could never get enough of the mysteries that books showed me, the magic they created, or the many incredible worlds they opened up in my mind’s eye.

Books were my escape from all the things that troubled me. They were my passage into amazing, sometimes terrifying places I never dreamed might exist. Books were my home port, their pages a comfort and companion, no matter my age or where life took me.

They still are.

The fact that I now make my living writing books—telling stories I hope will give my readers some of the same kind of escape and wonderment that other storytellers have given me throughout my life—is a privilege I never take for granted.

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