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.

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 sungla.s.ses 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 ma.s.s (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.

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.

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.

First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.

Gresa (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 and falsely agree to take her to the bus station. Gresa and his partner instead take Jenna to a meat-packing plant in Southie, Gresa shoots her in the thigh during a struggle in the van, then they lock her in a refrigerated room. Brock bites Gresa, then kills him by breaking his neck.

First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.

Grigori (d.) Breed male, Kade's uncle. Younger brother to Kir and Maksim. Grigori was the family's dark secret, a vibrant, reckless, charming youth who was too wild at heart. Grigori fell into Bloodl.u.s.t and went Rogue. Maksim tells Kade that once Kir learned that Grigori's addiction had led him to kill, Kir wrote the boy off completely, even though Kir loved him dearly. Maksim tells Kade that Kir never so much as spoke of Grigori again, and he was never the same. Later on, after Seth's funeral at the family Darkhaven in Alaska, Kir explains to Kade that although Kade reminded him of the best in Grigori, Seth was Grigori at his worst. Kir confesses that Grigori didn't simply disappear from the family; Kir felt duty-bound to make sure his brother could never kill again. He took his beloved brother's life, and feared that he would one day see his sons suffer a similar impossible situation.

First mention in series: Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

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Hank Maguire (d.) Human. Alexandra's stepfather. Ran a seaplane charter business in Florida when Alex was a kid. After the murders of Alex's mother and little brother, Richie, by Rogues in Florida when Alex was nine, Hank relocated with her to Harmony, Alaska. Taught Alex to fly when she was twelve. Hank was dead from Alzheimer's Disease six months before the timeline of Shades of Midnight.

First mention in series: Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

Hans Friedrich Waldemar (d.) Breed male, corrupt Enforcement Agent located in Berlin, Germany. First introduced at the reception for Elise Chase and Tegan hosted by Andreas Reichen in Midnight Awakening. Waldemar tried to monopolize Elise's attention, bragging to her with stories of his Agency exploits. He then later expresses his distaste for the Order and Tegan in particular, remarking that the warriors are vigilantes who deserve no respect. Elise puts Waldemar in his place, reminding him of how Tegan saved the Berlin Darkhaven from a Rogue attack in the early 1800s. Later, during the timeline of events in Ashes of Midnight, Waldemar is revealed to be part of Wilhelm Roth's (and by extension, Dragos's) corrupt inner circle. Andreas Reichen seeks out Waldemar and kills him by breaking his neck.

First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.

Harvard the dog Canine. Mixed breed terrier, shelter dog. Spared from euthanasia at a Boston shelter when Dante purchased the dog as a means of getting close to Tess. As a private joke, Dante names the pitiful creature after Sterling Chase. Tess later uses her healing ability to cure the dog of its cancer and other ailments. After Tess is brought to the compound, Dante brings the dog to her, where it becomes a part of the Order's growing family.

First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

Heinrich Kuhn (d.) Breed male, director of the Rogue Rehabilitation facility in Berlin, Germany. Antagonistic toward Tegan when the warrior and Elise arrive to speak with one of the facility's patients (see Petrov Odolf). It is later revealed that Kuhn has been approached and threatened by Marek, and out of fear of Marek, Kuhn arranges for his facility guards to drug Tegan with tranquilizers when the warrior returns to question Kuhn again in private. Tegan is given up to Marek for capture and torture, and Kuhn is swiftly beheaded by Marek after serving his purpose.

First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.

Helene (d.) Human. Lover of Andreas Reichen (prior to Ashes of Midnight) and owner of Berlin s.e.x club, Aphrodite. Aware of the Breed, but she kept their secret. Raven-haired Helene also provided information to Andreas Reichen, including details on the disappearance of a girl from her club. Helene collects a name of the Breed male last seen with the girl: Wilhelm Roth, Claire's mate and Enforcement Agency ally to Dragos. In Veil of Midnight, Roth turns Helene Minion and sends her to Reichen's Darkhaven to facilitate the slaughter of everyone inside by armed Agents. Reichen comes home to discover her in the blood-soaked aftermath and is forced to kill her.

First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.

Henry Tulak (d.) Human. Native resident of Harmony, Alaska, lived alone in a small cabin ten miles out of town. Killed the winter before the timeline of Shades of Midnight, causes unknown, until Kade later deduces that Tulak was a victim of Kade's brother, Seth.

First mention in series: Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

Henry Vachon (d.) Breed male, second generation. High-ranking Enforcement Agency member located in New Orleans and longtime secret ally to Dragos (aka Gerard Starkn). Henry Vachon was a partic.i.p.ant in the 1930s abduction of Corinne Bishop and her transfer to Dragos's breeding labs. After Hunter and Corinne collect Vachon's name as one of her tormentors, they travel to New Orleans where Hunter later breaks into Vachon's mansion with the intent of gathering intel on Dragos. Vachon resists compromising his alliance with Dragos, and reveals to Hunter that both Vachon and Dragos raped her the night of her abduction. Enraged, Hunter attacks Vachon and kills him. During the slaying, Hunter's blood-reading ability shows him the location of stored records and materials from one of Dragos's breeding labs.

First mention in series: Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

"Homeboy" (d.) Breed male, Boston resident. Skin trader who trafficks women to sell to other Breed males or humans in the market for females. Has three human women bound, beaten and held captive beneath his club when Kade and Brock raid his place. Homeboy dresses in a long fox fur coat, tons of bling and guyliner. Keeps two white pit bulls, which Kade uses his talent on, turning the dogs on their owner during questioning.

First mention in series: Appears in Shades of Midnight.

Hugh Faulkner (d.) Breed male, Gen One. Blacksmith and sword maker in London, England circa 1600s. Hugh was an arrogant, nasty individual who unwisely challenged Gideon to a duel about three-hundred years before the timeline of Kiss of Midnight. Gideon proved the victor, slaying Hugh following the smith's attempt to cheat by attacking Gideon from behind. It is later revealed that Hugh had an illegitimate son (see Cyril Smithson) who witnessed the contest and vowed to retaliate for his father's death by murdering Gideon's young twin brothers.

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

Hunter Gen One Breed, Order member. Mate of Corinne Bishop. Born August 8, 1956, Hunter was conceived and raised in a covert laboratory environment under the control of Dragos. Given no name at birth, like the rest of his lab-bred a.s.sa.s.sin brothers, this lethal Breed male answers to the name of the role he was created to fill: Hunter. After his rearing in Dragos's labs, Hunter's home base was a meager farmhouse in Vermont, where he lived in an unfurnished, bare-floored cellar, tended by a Minion handler a.s.signed to him since birth. Like all others raised to be Dragos's personal army of a.s.sa.s.sins, Hunter had been fitted from childhood with a black electronic collar that contained an ultraviolet light source. This UV collar, if tampered with or triggered remotely by Dragos, would detonate and kill him instantly.

Hunter has a special affection for Mira, who, as a child, unwittingly prevented him from carrying out one of his a.s.sa.s.sination missions (see Sergei Yakut) when he looked into the young seer's gaze and saw the girl would one day spare his life. She made good on that vision later, during the timeline of Veil of Midnight, and because of her, Hunter joined the Order's fight against Dragos. Hunter was a virgin until he met and became involved with Corinne Bishop while charged with escorting her to her family's Darkhaven in Detroit. Hunter and Corinne are now parents to her son, Nathan, also a Gen One trained a.s.sa.s.sin.

Hair: close-shorn, brownish blond Eyes: golden, hawk-like Unique ability: blood-reader (Breed and Breedmates only, does not work on humans) Mate: Corinne Bishop Hero in: Deeper Than Midnight (Book 9) First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.

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Ida Arnold Human. Resident of Harmony, Alaska, and Skeeter's mother. Unpleasant person, harangues Skeeter constantly and is nearly killed by him after he's been turned Minion.

First mention in series: Appears in Shades of Midnight.

Ilsa Roth (d.) Breedmate, first mate of Wilhelm Roth in Germany. Ilsa was timid, a poor match for Roth. She and Andreas Reichen both earn Roth's ire when Ilsa contradicts her mate at a public event and is reprimanded by Roth. Andreas finds the Breedmate crying in the rain and gives her his jacket before sending her home with his driver. Roth finds out and seethes with hatred for both of them. It was purported that Ilsa died in a Rogue attack thirty years before the timeline of Ashes of Midnight, but Roth later reveals to Claire that he had his first mate killed in order to pave the way to claim Claire for himself.

First mention in series: Referenced in Ashes of Midnight.

Irina Odolf Breedmate of Petrov Odolf. Elise and Tegan are introduced to Irina at a Rogue rehabilitation facility in Berlin during the timeline of Midnight Awakening. Irina is there for a supervised feeding with Petrov, whom the Order seeks to question about the Petrov family journal recovered from a Minion (see Sheldon Raines) who'd intended to deliver the book to his Master, Marek. Irina and Elise bond over the loss of their beloved mates, and Irina eventually provides Elise and the Order with additional clues to the past, including information that will a.s.sist them in finding the hiding place of the last remaining Ancient.

First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Jack Human. Friend of Renata's. Former military, Texas drawl, gray buzz-cut hair. Jack runs a halfway house for troubled teens. House is called "Anna's Place" in memoriam to Jack's wife, who was killed years ago by a teen heroin addict. Jack gave Renata shelter when she was a runaway from an orphanage. Jack again provided safe haven for her, and for Nikolai, after Renata drove Niko to Jack's place following her rescue of Niko from a Rogue rehabilitation facility outside Montreal, Quebec, where he was being drugged and held by Edgar Fabien, an ally of Dragos's. Years ago, Jack gave Renata the four custom daggers she always carries, which bear the words, "faith," "honor," "courage," and "sacrifice"-the qualities he saw in her as a young woman, and what he hoped would serve as reminders of the qualities that would see her through any situation.

First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.

James MacConn Breed male, cousin of Conlan MacConn's, lives in Edinburgh. Dark-eyed mate of Emma MacConn. James and Emma were present with Danika at the holiday party where she first encounters a crime boss named Reiver, and his bodyguard, Brannoc (AKA Malcolm MacBain).

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

Jamie Human. Gabrielle's gay male friend in Boston. Newbury Street art gallery owner where Gabrielle's photo exhibit was displayed in Kiss of Midnight. It is Jamie who instigates going to a nightclub after the art exhibit, which brings Gabrielle, Jamie and their friends Kendra and Megan to the club La Notte, where Gabrielle first sees Lucan Thorne and witnesses a group of vampires attacking a human in the alley outside. Later in the timeline of Kiss of Midnight, Jamie is abducted by Marek in an attempt to lure Gabrielle to him, but Jamie escapes from the vehicle at a red light. After his escape and Gabrielle's rescue from Marek, Jamie is allowed to go free without a mind scrub, a kindness Lucan grants Gabrielle, permitting her to decide how much to tell her friend as she tells Jamie good-bye.

First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

Jane Doe (d.) Human. Gabrielle's unnamed teenage mother. Leaving home in Bangor, Maine, twenty-seven years before the timeline of Kiss of Midnight, headed for New York City with an infant Gabrielle, where she hopes to become a Rockette. On the bus ride toward Boston, Gabrielle's mother encounters a Rogue who attacks her outside a bus station restroom. She is bitten, and narrowly escapes the death of herself and her child, rescued by the intervention of an unnamed, dark-haired man (see Lucan Thorne). Gabrielle's mother flees with her, hiding the baby in a Dumpster, in her shock believing she was putting the infant to bed. Scared and losing hold of her sanity after the a.s.sault, the teenager is later picked up and taken to an insane asylum as a Jane Doe with no ID. She eventually cracks and commits suicide, leaving Gabrielle to become a ward of the state.

First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

Janet Human. Friend of Dylan's mother, Sharon Alexander. Janet worked with Sharon at the runaway center in Brooklyn, New York. Janet is present with Dylan and two of Sharon's other friends (see Marie and Nancy) on the trip to the Czech Republic, which Dylan attends in her cancer-stricken mother's place. While in town for a meal, Janet attempts to match-make between Dylan and a Czech bartender (see Goran). 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, Janet and her two friends are later mind-scrubbed by Niko and Kade on Lucan's orders. Later in the timeline of Midnight Rising, Janet helps Dylan pack up Sharon's office at the shelter and shows Dylan a photograph of shelter benefactor, Gordon Fa.s.so (see Dragos). Janet further a.s.sists Dylan during the timeline of Taken by Midnight, by providing old photographs of the shelter and some of the other women who once worked there (see Sister Margaret Mary Howland).

First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Rising.

Jenna Tucker-Darrow Human (originally). Mate of Order member Brock. Jenna is a former Alaska State Trooper and best friend of Alexandra Maguire. Four years before timeline of Shades of Midnight, Jenna lost her husband and young daughter when a timber truck collided with the family's vehicle on the highway in Alaska. Jenna barely survived, waking a month and a half later to learn her loved ones were gone. She quit her job as a Trooper, even though police work and helping people is a big part of her nature.

Thirty-three-year-old Jenna is human, but an attack on her by the Ancient has left her changed in many ways-not the least of which being a growing dermaglyph that's appeared on the back of her neck. The Order brought her from Alaska to their Boston compound to heal, aided by Brock's calming effect on the human. As Jenna's stay lengthened, the Order discovered her human DNA was being dominated by that of the creature who attacked her, gifting her with unusual strength and abilities, and transforming into something never seen before.

Hair: shoulder-length, medium brown Eyes: hazel Breedmate mark: does not have one Bloodscent: does not have one Unique ability: superhuman speed and agility, unlimited language comprehension, adaptive regeneration (body learning to heal itself after injury), and other abilities yet to be revealed Mate: Brock Heroine in: Taken by Midnight (Book 8) First mention in series: Appears in Shades of Midnight.

Joey Human. FedEx clerk in Boston who had to deal with an abusive customer (see Sheldon Raines). Joey a.s.sists Elise the next day when she returns to the FedEx store to pick up her "husband's" delayed package (see Odolf family). She has no ID to prove her claim, but Joey agrees to give her the package in exchange for her son Camden's iPod, Elise's only memento of her deceased son.

First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.

Jonas Redmond (d.) Breed male, Darkhaven youth from Boston and close friend of Camden Chase. Jonas was the Breed youth whom Ben Sullivan witnessed having a violent reaction to Crimson in a Boston nightclub. Jonas continues using the drug and soon goes Rogue. The civilian is killed in an altercation with Dante outside a club, when Dante's t.i.tanium-edged blade slices Jonas's arm and the poison of the metal ashes the Rogue youth in the street.

First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Kade Breed male, Order member and mate of Alexandra Maguire. Close friends with Brock. Born more than one hundred years ago, raised on his parents' 10,000 acre Darkhaven wilderness compound outside Fairbanks, Alaska.

Kade been with the Order for about a year when Shades of Midnight opens, recruited by Nikolai, whom Kade had met decades earlier. Kade is a twin, had an identical brother, Seth, back home in Alaska. The untamed nature of his homeland is in Kade's veins. He is quick and impulsive and loyal, but also haunted by a darkness that lives inside him. He is forced to confront that darkness when a string of human slayings-obvious vampire attacks-in the Alaskan bush send him back home to investigate for the Order.

Hair: thick, spiky black Eyes: wolf-like silver, fringed with inky lashes Unique ability: can connect psychically with predator animals, experience their senses, direct their actions with a thought Mate: Alexandra Maguire Hero in: Shades of Midnight (Book 7) First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.

Ka.s.sia (d.) Breedmate, Dragos's mother and mate to the Gen One and Order member, Dragos the elder. Ka.s.sia was the artist who hundreds of years ago st.i.tched a tapestry for Lucan, commemorating the Order's triumph over the Ancients. Unbeknownst to Lucan, the tapestry, depicting him on a rearing warhorse in front of his family's burning castle, also contained clues to a riddle woven into the design that later would lead the Order to the hiding place of the Ancient in the Bohemian mountain cave. Ka.s.sia was very close to Tegan's first mate, Sorcha. After Ka.s.sia's mate, Dragos the elder, was killed by Marek, she committed suicide to avoid being tortured by Marek for the secret of the Ancient's hiding place.

First mention in series: Referenced in Midnight Awakening.

Kellan Archer Breed male, third generation. Son of Christophe Archer, grandson of Lazaro and Eleanor Archer. Kellan is fourteen years old during the timeline of Taken by Midnight, where he is first introduced in the series as the Darkhaven teen of a prominent Boston family who's abducted and held for ransom by Dragos's men. Kellan's abduction was actually a ruse meant to give Dragos the chance to find the location of the Order's Boston compound, a goal achieved when the Order rescues the teen and brings him and his grandfather, Lazaro, into Order protection at their headquarters. It is soon discovered that Dragos embedded a GPS device in Kellan's stomach, which the boy vomits up, alerting the Order that their longtime secret compound has been compromised.

Kellan Archer is a sullen boy, bereft over the loss of his parents and all but one of his family members (see Lazaro Archer) in a Darkhaven explosion carried out at Dragos's command. Mira befriends Kellan immediately, deciding he will be her best friend whether he likes it or not (he doesn't). During his recuperation with the Order, Kellan continues to withdraw, refusing to feed until Lucan takes him out to hunt in Darker After Midnight. He wants to join the Order for revenge on Dragos, but Lucan denies him, telling him he's too young and wants it for the wrong reason. Later on in Darker After Midnight, Kellan takes part in a s...o...b..ll fight with Nathan. When Mira gets. .h.i.t with one of Nathan's volleys, Kellan reacts with swift, protective fury. The two teen vampires grapple, and Kellan, sensing Nathan's lethal skill and training, asks him to teach him everything he knows.

Although Kellan is only a teenager as of the timeline of Darker After Midnight, his full romantic story is told twenty years afterward in Edge of Dawn.

Hair: ginger as a teen; brownish-copper, the color of an old penny, as an adult Eyes: hazel Unique ability: can read a human's true intentions with his touch Mate: Mira Hero in: Edge of Dawn (Book 11) First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.