The Midnight Breed Series Companion (36 page)

First mention in series:
Appears in A Taste of Midnight (novella).

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Eleanor Archer (d.)
   Breedmate of Lazaro Archer, mother to Christophe and other, unnamed sons. Eleanor was killed in the razing of the family Darkhaven in Boston, an attack ordered by Dragos. Eleanor (“Ellie”) was beautiful and headstrong, and deeply loved by Lazaro.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Taken by Midnight.

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Elise Chase
   Breedmate of Order member Tegan. A ward of the Darkhavens since she was a little girl in the slums of 19th century Boston, Elise was raised by a prominent Breed family, the Chases. Eventually she became the Breedmate of Quentin Chase, elder brother to Sterling Chase. Quentin died five years before the events in Kiss of Midnight, widowing Elise. More recently, their eighteen-year-old son, Camden, went Rogue after being exposed to a drug called Crimson and is since deceased, shot and killed by Sterling Chase when the Rogue might have lashed out at his mother.

After Camden’s death, Elise wants vengeance on the individual responsible for creating the drug that poisoned him. Her quest brings her up against Tegan from the Order, and introduces her to a dangerous passion she cannot resist.

Hair:
light blond

Eyes:
pale lavender

Breedmate mark:
on the inside of her right thigh

Bloodscent:
heather and roses and fresh spring rain

Unique ability:
telepathically hears the sins and negative energy of humans

Mate:
Quentin Chase (deceased); Tegan

Heroine in:
Midnight Awakening (Book 3)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Ethan
  Breed male, young Enforcement Agent in Boston. Ethan is the Agent who calls Mathias Rowan down to the aftermath of the massacre at the Chinatown Enforcement Agency strip club. Ethan is a good Agent, but new to his post. Rowan reflects that the Breed male is devoted to justice, a rarity within the Agency at that time.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Eva (d.)
   First Breedmate of Rio. Betrayed him and the rest of the Order to Marek, leading the warriors to an ambush that left Rio gravely wounded and near death. His injury was not Eva’s intention, and when the team returns with mass casualties, Eva reveals her duplicity and eventually kills herself after Rio publicly denounces her.

Eva appears as a ghost in Midnight Rising, first acting as a guide to Dylan Alexander in the Czech Republic, leading Dylan to find Rio, who is wasting away in the mountain cave where the Ancient had once been located. Eva implores Dylan to “save him.” Later, Eva appears again, this time to Rio, after Dylan is captured by Dragos. Eva helps Rio find Dylan at the Croton Reservoir dam in New York. Eva makes one final appearance to Dylan, after Rio and Dylan are mated and safe at the Order’s compound in Boston. Rio burns Eva’s remaining personal effects, and Eva sadly smiles to Dylan in understanding, acceptance, before fading away.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Evran (d.)
   Breed male, Lucan’s older brother, the middle of the three siblings (Marek being eldest). Evran went Rogue soon after he reached adulthood. He was later killed in combat during one of the old wars between the Breed and the Rogues, Evran being on the wrong side of the conflict.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Kiss of Midnight.

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Fiona MacBain (d.)
   First Breedmate of Malcolm MacBain. Fiona was gentle and innocent, just twenty-two when Malcolm met her. She looked at him like some kind of fairytale hero, helped the jaded Breed male remember what it was like to be carefree and open. Mal and Fiona were together less than a year when he realized he loved her. They mated and lived at his castle Darkhaven outside Edinburgh, then soon Fiona became pregnant.

She was only a few months along when she traveled alone to the city one day to pick up bedding for the nursery while Mal was home building her a custom rocking chair. Fiona was grabbed off the street by a pimp who supplied a local Breed crime boss’s blood clubs (see Reiver). Fiona fought her abductor and was stabbed through the heart. Feeling her pain through their blood bond and sensing she was still alive, Malcolm defied the noonday sun to look for her. He arrived in Edinburgh burned and weak, too late to save his mate. But he found the pimp and killed him, then vowed to avenge Fiona and their unborn child by infiltrating the organization of the crime boss and destroying him from the inside. Although Breedmate funeral rites call for cremation, Malcolm instead brought Fiona’s bloodied body home and buried her that same day.

First mention in series:
Referenced in A Taste of Midnight (novella).

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Fran Littlejohn
   Human. Resident of Harmony, Alaska. Works at the town’s medical center. Fran was present when Skeeter killed Big Dave Grant at the center. Kade later trances her, making her forget what she witnessed and has her tell a gathering of Harmony residents that Big Dave died on the table from his attack injuries.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Freyne (d.)
   Breed male, Enforcement Agent. Freyne is present at a crime scene with Mathias Rowan when Sterling Chase and Brock show up to talk with Rowan. Freyne taunts Chase about his nephew Camden’s death, inciting Chase to fight with him. Later, after Kellan Archer’s abduction, Freyne is the Agent who receives a tip from a human informant about the location where Kellan is being held. Freyne is present on the Agency mission to rescue the Breed youth, led by Mathias Rowan. While there, Freyne’s duplicity and alliance with Dragos is revealed when, left alone with Chase to guard Kellan’s father, Christophe, and his grandfather, Lazaro, Freyne instead murders Christophe and Lazaro narrowly survives. Freyne is killed by Hunter, who comes upon the attack and intervenes.

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Gabrielle Maxwell  
Breedmate of Order leader Lucan. Orphaned as an infant in Boston twenty-seven years before the Midnight Breed series opens. Gabrielle’s unwed teen mother was institutionalized, and later committed suicide, after claiming to have been attacked by a vampire. Gabrielle doesn’t know who her father is, was raised in foster care until being adopted by local (human) family, the Maxwells, when she was twelve. Gabrielle had a troubled youth.

At twenty-eight, she was living on her own and had become a gifted art photographer whose images, unbeknownst to her, often featured Breed locations. Gabrielle knew nothing about the world of the Breed, nor her place in it as a Breedmate, until her path crossed with Lucan’s one harrowing summer night in Boston.

Hair:
auburn

Eyes:
soft brown

Breedmate mark:
behind her left ear

Bloodscent:
night-blooming jasmine

Unique ability:
can sense, and is drawn to, areas of Breed presence

Mate:
Lucan

Heroine in:
Kiss of Midnight (Book 1)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Gideon
   Breed male, Order member. Mate of Savannah Dupree. Born in England in 1602. Renown for his skill with a sword, Gideon had worked independently to eliminate Rogues, but sought out Lucan to join the Order after Gideon’s young twin brothers, Simon and Roderick, were killed in a Rogue attack outside their London Darkhaven. Gideon is the Order’s resident genius, responsible for all the technology and even performs as the compound’s medic when needed.

No longer runs combat missions due to irreparable brain injury sustained during the rescue of his Breedmate, Savannah thirty-plus years before the timeline of Kiss of Midnight. Gideon still carries a bullet lodged deep in his brain after that confrontation (see Cyril Smithson), which has crippled his ESP talent and impacted his eyesight so that he must wear some form of sunglasses at all times.

Hair:
blond, cropped/spiky cut

Eyes:
sharp blue, usually glancing over the rims of pale blue or silver shades

Unique ability:
power to see life energy through solid mass (talent lost due to injury)

Mate:
Savannah Dupree

Hero in:
A Touch of Midnight (Series prequel novella, Book 0.5)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Goran
   Human. Handsome young barkeep at the small-town pub outside Prague, where Dylan and her traveling companions go for a meal and drinks after hiking in the Czech mountains. Goran flirts with Dylan, and tells the women about area lore and his own grandfather’s recent witness of a fanged creature (see Rio) that attacked one of his field workers a few months before the timeline of Midnight Rising. Dylan wants to question his grandfather for an article she plans to write for the tabloid she works for, but Goran informs her that the old man died of old age recently.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Rising.

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Green (d.)
   Human. FBI Special Agent, NYC office. Green is FBI partner of Phillip Cho and Minion to Dragos. Green Tasers Jenna at the NYC office after she arrives for a meeting with Cho. Green accidentally shoots Cho in the vehicle while they are taking Jenna to Dragos, crashing the car. Brock is in pursuit in a second vehicle, follows the crashed FBI car to rescue Jenna. Green comes out shooting, and Jenna eventually kills the Minion using Brock’s pistol.