The Midnight Breed Series Companion

by Lara Adrian

  Hair: shaggy, chestnut-brown

  Eyes: gunmetal gray

  Unique ability: not yet revealed

  Mate: Fiona (deceased); Danika MacConn

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

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

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  Marek (d.) Gen One Breed, Lucan’s eldest of two brothers. The most fearless, according to Lucan. Marek was part of the Order when Lucan first founded it in the mid-1300s, along with Tegan and several other Gen Ones. Less than a hundred years after that conflict, Marek was presumed to have fallen into Bloodlust and taken his own life by seeking the sun.

  During the timeline of Kiss of Midnight, it is revealed that Marek is not dead, but is in fact leading a group of Rogues in Boston intent on destroying Lucan and the Order in a quest for world domination. In Kiss of Midnight, Marek creates Minions of several humans, uses Rio’s mate, Eva, against the Order, and eventually abducts Gabrielle in an effort to lure Lucan into his hands. Gabrielle is rescued and Marek escapes, thwarted, but continues to cause problems in Kiss of Crimson by funding the manufacture and distribution of a Bloodlust-inducing drug (see Ben Sullivan).

  In Midnight Awakening, Marek reveals to Tegan that it was he, Marek, who turned Tegan’s first mate Minion (see Sorcha). Marek also divulges his role in the concealment of the last remaining Ancient and his belief that the Breed should enslave mankind and become the kings the Breed were meant to be. After taking Tegan captive in Berlin with the help of a secret ally (see Heinrich Kuhn) and feeding him Crimson, Marek is confronted by Lucan and Elise, who’ve come to look for Tegan. In a rare show of indecision, Lucan finds the thought of killing his brother too difficult to carry out. Marek is instead slain by Tegan and Elise working together.

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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  Marie Human. Friend of Dylan’s mother, Sharon Alexander; works with Sharon and Janet at the runaway shelter in Brooklyn, New York. Marie is present on the trip to the Czech Republic with Sharon’s other friends (see Janet and Nancy), Dylan attending in her cancer-stricken mother’s place. Because the women received Dylan’s photos of her time in Prague, including images of Rio and the Ancient’s hiding place in the mountain cave, Marie and her two friends are later mind-scrubbed by Niko and Kade on Lucan’s orders.

  First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Rising.

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  Martina Breedmate, and friend of Claire (Roth) Reichen’s in Germany. A gifted architect, Martina designed a small garden park at Claire’s request, after Claire admired her other work around the Breed communities. Martina had assumed the park was for Claire’s mate, but it was actually done in memory of Andreas Reichen, who had been presumed dead in the attack on his Darkhaven in Berlin.

  First mention in series: Appears (via telephone call) in Ashes of Midnight.

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  Mason Breed male, guard at the Bishop Darkhaven. Kind-hearted, trustworthy. Mason comes to the protection of Corinne’s mother, Regina, when Victor Bishop threatens her life after she uncovers his betrayal of Corinne to Dragos and Henry Vachon. During the confrontation, Victor reflects that he had long suspected Mason had feelings for Regina.

  First mention in series: Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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  Mathias Rowan Breed male. Enforcement Agent in Boston, used to work with Sterling Chase at the Agency. In timeline of Taken by Midnight, Mathias has been covertly supplying the Order with intel on corrupt Agents and other issues of interest to the Order. While many in the Enforcement Agency are untrustworthy and self-serving, Mathias is one of the good guys. He is the first to inform the Order of Kellan Archer’s abduction, alerting the warriors of a tip leading to Kellan’s location. Mathias leads the Agency team in the rescue of Kellan along with the Order. When it turns out that Dragos is behind the abduction and the later destruction of the Archer Darkhaven in Boston, Mathias Rowan tells the Order that he is their ally in the fight and that Dragos is his enemy now too.

  First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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  Megan Human. Close friend of Gabrielle’s. Megan and her cop boyfriend, Ray, come to check on Gabrielle while Lucan is there and Lucan has to scrub their memories before he takes Gabrielle away to the compound.

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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  Millie Dunbar Human. 87-year-old resident of Harmony, Alaska. Present at the impromptu town hall meeting where Alexandra Maguire first sees Kade.

  First mention in series: Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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  Mira Breedmate, orphaned in Montreal and abducted at the age of eight by the same Breed elder for whom Renata worked (see Sergei Yakut). Mira is a Breedmate girl with a precognitive gift for showing someone an event fated to take place in their future. Her ability comes with a price, however: each vision she gives takes away some of her eyesight. To combat this problem, she wore a veil over her eyes during the timeline of Veil of Midnight. After becoming a resident of the Order’s compound in Boston, Mira was given custom-crafted purple contacts, created by Gideon, to protect her eyes and mute her seer’s gift to others who might look into her gaze. Mira was nicknamed “Mouse” by Renata, who’s become a surrogate mother to the girl.

  During the timeline of Veil of Midnight, several people saw visions in Mira’s eyes: Nikolai, Hunter, Sergei Yakut, Edgar Fabien, and Dragos. During the timeline of Ashes of Midnight, Mira accidently showed Claire a vision of Andreas’s death by flames and smoke. During events in Darker After Midnight, Mira inadvertently shows Lucan a vision of war and bloodshed that soon comes to pass. Mira’s closest friends, aside from Renata and Nikolai, are Kellan Archer and Nathan. She has a special connection to Hunter as well, who is fiercely protective of her. Mira is also immensely fond of the Order’s resident canines, Harvard and Luna.

  Although Mira is a child through the timeline of Darker After Midnight, her full romantic story is told twenty years afterward in Edge of Dawn.

  Hair: blond

  Eyes: a white so pure they seem colorless, mirror-like

  Breedmate mark: in her hairline near her left temple

  Bloodscent: lily of the valley

  Unique ability: precognition, but she does not see or interpret the visions, which play out for the observer as though in a mirror

  Mate: Kellan Archer

  Heroine in: Edge of Dawn (Book 11)

  First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.

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  Mitch Darrow (d.) Human. Deceased husband of Jenna Tucker-Darrow and former Alaska State Trooper. Killed in car accident along with their daughter, Libby, in Alaska four years before the timeline of Shades of Midnight.

  First mention in series: Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

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  Moric Kaszab (d.) Breed male, second generation. One of Dragos’s inner circle, secret lieutenants. Kaszab was head of the Enforcement Agency in Budapest, Hungary. He was present via video conference with Dragos during the timeline of Darker After Midnight, when the decision was made to unleash the Rogues from their rehabilitation facilities around the globe. Kaszab was eager for the carnage to come, expressed his belief that it was time enough that the Breed rise up to rule the night as was their birthright. At the close of Darker After Midnight, Kaszab is among the lieutenants reported as having been tracked down and eliminated by the combined efforts of the Order, Andreas Reichen, Mathias Rowan, and other like-minded members of the Enforcement Agency in various parts of the world.

  First mention in series: Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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  Mrs. Corelli Human. Elderly client of Tess’s veterinarian clinic who brings in her white Persian cat, Romeo, to be neutered. Tess is fond of the old woman and far undercharges her for the service, demonstrating the kind of tenderhearted care for her patients and their pets that is slowly putti
ng Tess into the red financially.

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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  Mrs. Kennefick Human. Works at the Boston Public Library; Savannah’s supervisor when she was a university student in Boston, circa 1974.

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

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  Murdock (d.) Breed male. Corrupt Enforcement Agent and ally of Dragos, but not part of his inner circle. Claims to report to another Agent out of Atlanta who is one of Dragos’s lieutenants (most likely, the unnamed lieutenant who appears in Shades of Midnight). Murdock is originally from Atlanta, Georgia, area but was transferred to Boston about fifty years ago due to conduct issues. Has a reputation for solicitation of minors among the human populations and excessive force on both human and Breed civilian populations.

  Murdock was at the Enforcement Agency watering hole in Chinatown when Sterling Chase and Hunter arrived there looking to gather intel on Dragos and his Enforcement Agency allies. Murdock disliked Chase, incited his anger at the club, resulting in a brawl between Chase and other Agents. After the altercation, Murdock went into hiding, but was later found by Chase, hunting humans as game in an illegal blood club outside Boston. Chase intervenes, disabling Murdock and taking him to an old grain silo for interrogation and torture.

  During the questioning, Murdock reveals that Dragos is trying to find the Order’s compound via some kind of Trojan horse (see Kellan Archer) and that he is making lots of Minions, including targeting a new senator (see Bobby Clarence). Chase kills Murdock after collecting the needed intel.

  First mention in series: Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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  Murphy, Officer (d.) Human. Uniformed Boston police officer who was posted outside Senator Clarence’s office the morning after the politician’s murder by Sterling Chase. Murphy is a big man, with facial scar that splits the dark slash of his left eyebrow. Detective Avery assigns Murphy and a couple other officers to take Tavia Fairchild to an area hotel for safekeeping, fearing she’s in danger too, because of her ties to the senator. It turns out Murphy is a Minion, something Sterling Chase realizes when he sees the officer escorting Tavia on the TV news. Murphy is killed by Chase at the hotel, when Chase arrives to rescue Tavia from the Minion. Tavia witnesses Chase breaking Murphy’s thick neck as if it were nothing, and here she begins to understand that Sterling Chase is not merely a man.

  First mention in series: Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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  Nancy Human. Friend of Dylan’s mother, Sharon Alexander, since high school. Nancy is present on the trip to the Czech Republic with Sharon’s other friends (see Janet and Marie), Dylan attending in her cancer-stricken mother’s place. Because the women received Dylan’s photos of her time in Prague, including images of Rio and the Ancient’s hiding place in the mountain cave, Nancy and her two friends are later mind-scrubbed by Niko and Kade on Lucan’s orders.

  First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Rising.

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  Nassi (d.) Human. Albanian delivery man who is one of a pair of bad guys who pick up Jenna after she flees the Order’s compound in Boston, falsely offering to take her to the bus station. Nassi and his partner instead take Jenna to a meat-packing plant in Southie and lock her in a refrigerated room. Brock finds her, killing Nassi and his coworkers.

  First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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  Nathan Gen One Breed, Corinne’s son, fathered by the Ancient who was held in captivity with Dragos. Nathan has jet-black hair, but as a Hunter, his head is shaved, making visible the dermaglyphs that cover his scalp. He has almond-shaped greenish-blue eyes like his mother, and also has her ESP gift of sonokinesis. A Hunter (raised to be an assassin), Nathan was born in Dragos’s breeding laboratory thirteen years before Corinne was freed by the Order during the timeline of Taken by Midnight.

  Genetically, Nathan is the half-brother of his mother’s mate, Hunter, and is also related to Tavia Fairchild and the other, undiscovered Gen One females birthed in Dragos’s labs, who are each the product of DNA blending between the Ancient and unknown Breedmates. Nathan is quiet and remote, unreadable. Though just a boy, he is expertly lethal because of his upbringing and training.

  During the timeline of Deeper Than Midnight, when Corinne and Hunter find Nathan in his Minion handler’s keeping in Georgia and find a way to free him of his UV collar, Nathan at first runs away. He returns to them the next night because he realizes he has nowhere to go. The couple takes him home to the Order’s relocated, temporary headquarters in Maine, where Nathan eventually becomes friends with Mira and Kellan.

  First mention in series: Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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  Nigel Traherne (d.) Breed male, second generation. One of Dragos’s inner circle, secret lieutenants. Traherne was the only one of Dragos’s lieutenants with no direct ties to the Enforcement Agency, but was instead a well-connected, wealthy Darkhaven leader from London, England. He was present via video conference with Dragos during the timeline of Darker After Midnight, when the decision was made to unleash the Rogues from their rehabilitation facilities around the globe. Traherne alone expresses deep reservations about Dragos’s plan, warning that an act of such magnitude cannot be undone. He reminds Dragos of recent setbacks in his operation’s missions and suggests that exposing the Breed forever to mankind is too rash a decision. He goes on to say that his mate is with child and due any day, and his two older sons have given him more than a dozen grandchildren. Traherne’s attack of conscience enrages Dragos, who orders the Breed male killed on the spot by the Hunter standing watch behind the London civilian on camera. Traherne’s neck is snapped, and Dragos continues the meeting as if the dead male never existed.

  First mention in series: Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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  Nikolai Breed male, Order member and mate of Renata. Born in Siberia approximately eighty years ago, no surname taken. Niko is a thrill-seeker and a gearhead. He loves weaponry, gadgets and things that go boom. Niko custom crafts a lot of the Order’s specialty ammunition used for combat missions and killing Rogues. He is impatient and a little cocky, full of explosive energy, but far from reckless. Nikolai is the one you’d watching your back in the heat of battle, but you would more than likely find him ahead of you, blazing the trail clear of danger before you even got there. Together, Niko and Renata are parents to orphan Mira.

  Hair: sandy blond

  Eyes: glacier-blue

  Unique ability: telepathically generates rapid growth in plant life

  Mate: Renata (couple shares parental responsibility for Mira)

  Hero in: Veil of Midnight (Book 5)

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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  Nora (d.) Human. Employee at Tess’s veterinary clinic in Boston. Nora is tortured and killed by Ben Sullivan in the vet clinic after he is turned Minion by Marek.

  First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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  Nurse Doublemint Human. One of a pair of nurses tending Sterling Chase in the medical facility he was taken to after being shot and Tasered at the Boston Police Department lineup. Chase nicknames the female “Nurse Doublemint” on account of the big wad of minty gum she chews at his hospital bedside. The nurse mentions that the lab needed to run Chase’s blood work a third time, because the results keep coming back messed up. She also remarks to her coworker (see Nurse Mike) on Chase’s condition, expressing astonishment that he could have survived so much bodily trauma. After Nurse Doublemint leaves the room, Chase begins his escape.

  First mention in series: Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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  Nurse Mike Human. One of a pair of nurses tending Sterling Chase in the medical facility he was taken to after being shot and Tasered at the Boston Police Department lineup. Mike is a big man, booming Boston ac
cented voice. He’s working on Chase, reporting his stats and preparing his medications and sedatives when his counterpart (see Nurse Doublemint) leaves to attend other hospital business. Mike thinks his patient is unconscious, but Chase is awake, waiting for his chance to make an escape. As Mike sets up the IV bag, Chase jumps on him to feed, then trances him. Chase takes the nurse’s scrubs, but the shoes are too small. Chase puts Mike in the hospital bed, scrubs his memory, then flees the medical ward on foot.

  First mention in series: Appears in Darker After Midnight.