The Midnight Breed Series Companion

by Lara Adrian

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

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  Danika (MacConn) MacBain Breedmate of Order member Conlan MacConn until his death. Current Breedmate of Malcolm MacBain. Danika was born in Denmark more than four hundred years ago, and mated to Conlan of the Scottish clan MacConn from the time she was eighteen, until his recent death on a mission for the Order in Boston.

  At the time of Con’s death, Danika was pregnant with their first child. She left Boston to return home to Denmark, where she gave birth to her son, Connor. During the timeline of Ashes of Midnight, Danika provided a safe house in Denmark for Andreas Reichen and Claire Roth. There, she reads Claire’s mind and assures Claire that Andreas feels the same regret at having lost so much time without each other.

  Later, during the timeline of A Taste of Midnight, Danika and Connor travel to Scotland to reunite with Conlan’s family in Edinburgh for the Christmas holiday. While there, Danika crosses paths with a dangerous Breed crime boss (see Reiver) and his scarred, mysterious henchman named Brannoc—a Breed male Danika once knew very well, at a different time, when Brannoc was a different man (see Malcolm MacBain).

  Hair: blond

  Eyes: blue

  Breedmate mark: on her abdomen

  Bloodscent: fresh rain

  Unique ability: mind-reading

  Mate: Conlan MacConn, long-time Order warrior (deceased); Malcolm MacBain

  Heroine in: A Taste of Midnight (novella, Book 9.5)

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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  Dante (Malebranche) Breed male, Order member and mate of Tess Culver. An only child, Dante was born in 18th century Italy two-hundred and twenty-nine years ago. Still has some of his Italian accent. Dante’s father was killed by a political rival in Italy; his mother perished in a riptide while attempting to save a drowning victim sometime later.

  The swaggering wise-ass of the group, Dante has adopted the last name of Malebranche for when he’s forced to mingle among humans. Malebranche (“evil claws”) is also what he calls his weapons of choice—a pair of curved, titanium blades that he uses in hand-to-hand combat against Rogues. Dante fights hard and plays hard, and despite his brashness, he is also fiercely loyal to those he cares about. His closest friend in the Order is Sterling Chase, although that friendship becomes strained and nearly broken when Chase begins displaying signs of Bloodlust and his actions start to jeopardize Order missions. Dante and Tess had intended to make Chase godfather to Xander Raphael, but they instead ask Gideon to take the honor. The relationship between Dante and Chase is on the mend again during the timeline of Darker After Midnight.

  Hair: black

  Eyes: whiskey-colored

  Unique ability: cursed with premonitions of death

  Mate: Tess Culver (couple has a newborn son named Xander Raphael)

  Hero in: Kiss of Crimson (Book 2)

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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  Dmitri (d.) Breed male, Nikolai’s deceased younger brother in Russia. About twenty years Nikolai’s junior, Dmitri was bright and bookish, fond of philosophy and taking things apart to see how they worked. But he adored Niko, wanted to be more like his older brother. One night Dmitri overheard one of Niko’s rivals from the Ukraine making harsh remarks about his brother. Dmitri called the Breed male out and cut him with a dagger. A lucky strike, but it infuriated the other vampire, who took Dmitri’s head in retaliation. Niko later hunted down the Breed male from Ukraine and killed him. Niko brought the prize to his parents as an apology for Dmitri’s death, but they shunned him, telling Niko it should have been him instead of Dmitri. Niko left his kin and never looked back.

  First mention in series: Referenced in Veil of Midnight.

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  Doctor Lewis (d.) Human. Private medical specialist who has been treating Tavia Fairchild’s “condition” all her life. Doctor Lewis is, in fact, a Minion under Dragos’s command, along with another of Tavia’s handlers (see Aunt Sarah). Out of his private, secured clinic in rural Sherborn, Massachusetts, Doctor Lewis is also secretly treating others like Tavia—Gen One Breed females created in Dragos’s breeding labs.

  Through Doctor Lewis’s records, Tavia discovers information about herself (as Subject 8, Patient “Octavia”) and others who were placed into various secret locations to live unwittingly among the humans as part of the mortal population, their Breed genetics medically suppressed, until Dragos feels the need to activate his creations for his own purposes. Tavia also discovers that Doctor Lewis was using her gift of photographic memory to supply Dragos with names and intelligence on various political officials and human government contacts while she lay in medically-enhanced debriefing sessions at the clinic. Tavia kills Doctor Lewis at the house she lives in with her “Aunt Sarah,” after the doctor arrives and attempts to drug her following her realization that she is something other than basic Homo Sapiens.

  First mention in series: Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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  Dragos, aka Gordon Fasso, aka Gerard Starkn, aka Drake Masters (d.) Second-generation Breed male, unmated. Son of a Gen One Breed father who bears the same name (see Dragos the elder) and mother named Kassia.

  Born in secret in the mid-1300s, Dragos was sent away by his mother to live with a family by the name of Odolf for her child’s protection. Kassia feared what might happen if word got out that Dragos’s Gen One father, during the war between the Order and their alien forebears, had secreted away one of the Ancients to a hidden hibernation crypt in the Bohemian mountains. Dragos’s father died at an enemy’s hand (see Marek), taking his secret to his grave, and Kassia, in danger herself, took her own life. But Dragos was too much like his duplicitous father. When he stumbled upon the secret of the Ancient’s location many years later, he decided to use the knowledge—and the sleeping Ancient’s genetics—to his own personal advantage.

  Retrieving the Ancient and imprisoning him in his breeding labs, Dragos spent decades growing his own army of Hunters and experimenting to create a branch of the Breed never seen before: Gen One females, like Tavia Fairchild. Over the years, Dragos wore many masks and assumed many names. He moved in human circles as Gordon Fasso and Drake Masters, and amassed power and allies within the Breed as Gerard Starkn, director of the Enforcement Agency.

  Dragos’s madness grew over time, culminating in one final, irreparable act of retaliation on the Order for all their efforts to thwart him. He freed hundreds of Rogues from captivity all over the world, turning them loose on unsuspecting human populations and exposing the Breed to mankind in the worst possible way. Dragos was finally killed by Sterling Chase, but the damage he’d done was immeasurable. The bloody aftermath of that pivotal night has come to be known as First Dawn.

  First mention in series: Referenced in Midnight Awakening; appears in Midnight Rising.

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  Dragos, the elder (d.) Breed male, Gen One. Father to Dragos the second, mate of Kassia. One of the original members of the Order at its founding in mid-1300s. Committed an act of treason during the Order’s war with the Ancients when he aided the otherworlder who sired him in escaping death and instead hid the Ancient away in a mountain cave in what is now the Czech Republic. Dragos the elder made the mistake of confiding his secret in another Breed male (see Marek) and paid for that error with his head, taking the location of the Ancient with him to his grave.

  First mention in series: Referenced in Midnight Awakening.

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  Dylan Alexander Breedmate of Order member Rio. Born and raised by her single mother in New York, Dylan had two half-brothers, both also named after rock musicians: Morrison and Lennon. Thirty-two during the timeline of Midnight Rising, Dylan Alexander was born with a troubling gift for seeing the dead. Fearful of being taken advantage of or shunned for this ability, she’s long tried to hide it, to deny it. As an adult, Dylan went on to make a career for
herself in journalism, until she let a personal bias cloud her reporting. Demoted to a tabloid rag, she stumbles across a blockbuster story while vacationing in the mountains of the Czech Republic.

  This story, exposing a mysterious crypt hidden in the caverns, brings her face-to-face with the existence of the Breed—and puts her in the middle of the Order’s war with a dangerous enemy bent on world domination. It also draws her to scarred, emotionally-closed off Rio, and into a passion for which neither of them was prepared. Dylan later learns that the man she thought to be her father (see Bobby Alexander) was actually her stepfather, and her true father is a man her mother met in Mykonos by the name of Zael. Through Jenna Tucker-Darrow’s investigation, it is revealed that Zael is a likely Atlantean immortal.

  Hair: long, curling flame-red

  Eyes: gold-flecked green

  Breedmate mark: nape of her neck

  Bloodscent: juniper and honey

  Unique ability: can see and hear the spirits of dead Breedmates, but cannot communicate with them

  Mate: Rio

  Heroine in: Midnight Rising (Book 4)

  First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Rising.

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  Edgar Fabien (d.) Breed male, second generation. Around four-hundred years old, unmated, and leader of his Darkhaven in Montreal, Quebec, for a century and a half as of the timeline of Veil of Midnight. A wealthy Breed civilian, Fabien has ash-blond hair, bird-like facial features and a slender, muscular build. He is always meticulously dressed, typically in the finest custom-tailored suits. Fabien’s connections reach deeply into the Darkhaven elite and the highest tiers of the Enforcement Agency. His wealth and connections help insulate him from any fallout resulting from the sadistic, criminal bent of his personal interests, which include a fondness for young girls.

  Fabien is also secretly in league with Dragos, a lieutenant in his inner circle. Alexei Yakut makes the mistake of underestimating Fabien’s power and attempts to strong-arm his way into the fold by orchestrating his father’s murder and offering up Order warrior Nikolai as the perpetrator. Fabien ends up with Niko in his custody and the child seer, Mira, as his personal prize, purchased from Alexei for the sum of two million dollars. In exchange for his efforts, Alexei is killed at his father’s lodge by Enforcement Agents, an attack arranged by Dragos and Fabien. Later on, Fabien presents Mira to Dragos as a gift at a gathering of Dragos’s followers. When the gathering is raided by the Order, Dragos blames Fabien for the botched security and shoots the Breed male between the eyes, killing him.

  First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.

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  Eleuterio “Rio” de la Noche Atanacio Breed male, Order member, mate of Dylan Alexander. Born in Spain, sometime in the early 1900s. Never knew his father, a Rogue who raped Rio’s sixteen-year old mother and left her pregnant with a child she would fear and despise as a monster.

  Later, orphaned as a young boy after men from the village raided his mother’s cottage and killed her, Rio was found around the age of five and raised by an area Darkhaven. They taught him what he was and how to survive. They also gave the boy who was given no name by his mother, and who thought of himself as an abomination because of his “manos del diablo”—his lethal, devil’s hands—an elegant, meaningful name: Eleuterio de la Noche Atanacio.

  Despite his tragic past and a more recent betrayal by his first Breedmate (see Eva) that left him terribly scarred and nearly destroyed him, Rio remains one of the most noble, honorable members of the Order. He is mated to Dylan Alexander, whom he encountered in the Czech mountains, after Eva’s ghost led Dylan to the cave where Rio was hiding.

  Hair: dark brown, thick and wavy

  Eyes: topaz

  Unique ability: cursed with power to kill with his touch, particularly when provoked

  Mate: Eva (deceased); Dylan Alexander

  Hero in: Midnight Rising (Book 4)

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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  Emma MacConn Breedmate of James MacConn, a cousin of Conlan MacConn. Emma is a petite redhead, in her twenties. She and James live in Edinburgh, Scotland, and were both present at the holiday party in the novella, A Taste of Midnight, where Danika encounters a dangerous crime boss named Reiver and his bodyguard, Brannoc (AKA Malcolm MacBain).

  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 wha
t 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.