The Midnight Breed Series Companion (43 page)

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Ruarke Louvell (d.)
   Breed male, second generation. One of Dragos’s inner circle, secret lieutenants. Louvell is a longtime Enforcement Agency director from Seattle. 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. Louvell expressed some remorse at the decision, but ultimately agreed it had to be done. At the close of Darker After Midnight, Louvell 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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Savannah Dupree
   Breedmate of Order member Gideon. Born and raised in the swamps of Louisiana, Savannah has been blood-bonded to Gideon since 1974, when he saved her life at the age of eighteen while she was attending university as a freshman student. Savannah has an elderly human half-sister, Amelie Dupree, who still lives in Louisiana. Savannah never knew her father, a wanderer who was little more than rumor in the family. Savannah is a nurturing woman and is the heart of home for the Order’s compound in Boston.

Hair:
tight, short black curls

Eyes:
dark brown

Breedmate mark:
on her left shoulder blade

Bloodscent:
magnolia

Unique ability:
psychometry

Mate:
Gideon

Heroine in:
A Touch of Midnight (series prequel novella, Book 0.5)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Sebastian Bishop (d.)
   Breed male, Corinne's brother in the Bishop Darkhaven in Detroit, and son of Victor and Regina Bishop. Sebastian was two years older than Corinne at time of her abduction at age eighteen in the 1930s. Sebastian was believed to have killed himself forty years ago in despair over his growing Bloodlust, but we learn in Deeper Than Midnight that he was extremely tormented after discovering his father betrayed Corinne and allowed her to be taken by Gerard Starkn (aka Dragos). Sebastian learned of his father’s lies when he’d been transferring some of his Victor’s guns into a cabinet Sebastian had made for him. In the old cabinet were receipts of dressmakers and jewelers who were paid to replicate what Corinne was wearing when she went missing—clothing put on another woman who was killed and made to resemble Corinne in an effort to conceal her true fate. After learning this, Sebastian fell into Bloodlust. He went Rogue, and after a savage killing spree, Sebastian committed suicide, shooting himself in the head in his father’s study.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Sergei Yakut (d.)
   Breed male, Gen One. One of the eldest, most menacing members of the Breed, Sergei Yakut answers to no one and serves only himself. Originally from Russia, during the timelines of Midnight Rising and Veil of Midnight, Yakut is based at his rustic Darkhaven lodge in the outskirts of Montreal, Quebec.

Nikolai first saw the nasty Gen One in Siberia when Niko was a youth. Nikolai is later tasked with going to Montreal to talk with Yakut and warn him of Dragos’s apparent intent to assassinate all remaining Gen Ones within the race. While at Yakut’s lodge, Niko meets Renata and Mira, both of whom are living under Yakut’s control. Yakut rules with a punishing hand; has burned Renata with irons and drinks her blood whenever he feels like it, using his bond to her to further control her and keep her in line. Renata is never permitted to drink from Yakut in return, out of his fear for how strong a full blood bond might make her and her ESP talent.

While at Yakut’s lodge, Niko also learns of his blood club activities and a recent failed attempt on the Gen One’s life by one of Dragos’s homegrown assassins (see Hunter). Yakut’s son, Alexei, in a grasp for power and influence with Dragos and his inner circle, later betrays his father and arranges for his killing in a Rogue attack at the lodge.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Midnight Rising.

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Seth (d.)
   Breed male, Kade's identical twin brother, shares Kade’s talent of psychic connection to predator animals. Seth’s wildness is stronger than Kade’s, it overpowers him. Although Seth is studious and cerebral, he is not the strong leader that Kade is. Seth resents that Kade was able to leave Alaska while he could not. Seth’s wild nature tempts him into killing humans, which eventually leads to his Bloodlust.

Later, it becomes clear that Seth has gone Rogue and cannot be saved. In a final act of redemption, Seth sacrifices himself to help the Order kill the last remaining Ancient. After a bloody altercation, both Seth and the Ancient plummet off the side of a steep cliff, where the Ancient is buried under an avalanche of ice and snow, but Seth comes to rest on an outcrop below. Although Kade attempts to save him, Seth dies of his wounds. Kade and Alex bring Seth’s body home to the family Darkhaven, where Kade reconciles with his father and attends Seth’s funeral with Alex.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Sharon Alexander (d.)
   Human. Dylan’s mother. A free spirit, forever falling in love with a new man and getting her heart broken. Never married again after Dylan’s stepfather (see Bobby Alexander) abandoned the family when Dylan was twelve. Sharon is in the midst of a cancer battle during the timeline of Midnight Rising, causing her to send Dylan on her trip to the Czech Republic in Sharon’s place. Sharon meanwhile continues to work at the runaway shelter in Brooklyn, New York, where she is crushing on the shelter’s chief benefactor, Gordon Fasso (see Dragos).

Sharon’s work at the shelter, and particularly her connection to a young woman who recently went missing (see Toni) provides clues for Dylan and the Order to get closer to Dragos. Eventually, Dragos finds out that Sharon’s daughter is involved with the Order and he confronts the terminally ill woman, threatening her for information. Sharon does not compromise her beloved daughter, not even after Dragos reveals himself to be a vampire. During the altercation with Dragos, Sharon defies him, deliberately tumbling off her condo balcony, where she dies in the fall. Sharon Alexander is buried in Queens, New York, her afternoon funeral attended by Dylan and the other Breedmates of the Order.

Later in the series, during the timeline of Darker After Midnight, it is discovered that Sharon Alexander had an affair while in Mykonos, Greece (see Zael), and Dylan was born the following year.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Rising.

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Sheldon Raines (d.)
   Human. Minion that Elise follows into a Boston FedEx store in opening scene of Midnight Awakening. He is a violent, belligerent individual, furious when he learns a package he’s expecting on behalf of his Master (see Odolf family) has been delayed due to a snowstorm. Elise tracks the Minion to his apartment building and stabs him dead with a dagger in her mission to kill Rogues and the unknown commander they served (see Marek) in an effort to avenge her son Camden’s death.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Sheryl
   Human. Lobby receptionist at the Boston Police station the night Gabrielle came in looking for “Detective” Lucan Thorne. On Officer Carrigan’s request, Sheryl calls a police psychologist to come down to the lobby and deal with Gabrielle, but Gabrielle leaves before the psychologist arrives.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Sidney Charles.
   Human. One of Harmony’s Native elder residents and the town’s long-running, pony-tailed mayor. After events escalate in Shades of Midnight, bringing several members of the Order to Alaska to clean up the situation, Sidney Charles and several dozen other Harmony residents and two newly arrived Alaska State Troopers are gathered at the town’s church, where they are all tranced and mind-scrubbed by Tegan, Chase and Hunter.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Simon (d.)
   Breed male, one of Gideon’s young identical twin brothers. Simon and his brother, Roderick, were slain in a Rogue attack more than three hundred years ago outside their Darkhaven in London. It is later discovered that the boys were murdered on the orders of one of Gideon’s enemies (see Cyril Smithson), a revenge killing following Gideon’s slaying of another Breed male—his enemy’s father—in a duel.

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

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Sister Grace Gilhooley (d.)
   Human. Nun who used to volunteer at the women’s shelter with Dylan’s mother, Sharon Alexander, twenty-plus years ago. Sister Grace has been turned Minion for Dragos, acting as guardian of a holding cell in her home on the coast near Gloucester, Massachusetts, where several Breedmates were imprisoned. When Dylan, Jenna, Alex and Renata arrive at her home, Jenna immediately recognizes the nun as a Minion. Sister Grace attempts to escape, but Jenna attacks her. The nun, being Minion, refuses to answer any questions, quickly poisoning herself to avoid betraying her Master, Dragos.

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Sister Margaret Mary Howland
   Human. Octogenarian nun living in a retirement home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Dylan finds the sister’s photograph in a twenty-year-old class picture type of pose in front of St. John’s Home for Young Women in Queensboro, New York, while searching for information about dead Breedmates who seemed to have ties to Dragos. Dylan and some of the Order’s other women decide to contact Sister Mary Margaret to see if the nun can help them find missing Breedmates. The nun innocently leads the women to Sister Grace Gilhooley, who secretly serves Dragos as a Minion and holds a group of Breedmates prisoner at her home.

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Skeeter Arnold (d.)
   Human. Full name Stanley Elmer Arnold. Stoner, unemployed drug dealer and resident of Harmony, Alaska. Makes money pushing drugs and alcohol on dry Native population and teens in area, covertly supplied by Zach Tucker. Skeeter took cell phone video of the Toms family’s bodies after the killings by the Ancient and uploaded it to the Internet, where the video caught the attention of the Order. Skeeter was later turned Minion by one of Dragos’s lieutenants. On a mission to eliminate witnesses to the Ancient, Skeeter stabs and kills Big Dave Grant in the medical clinic in town. Kade then kills Skeeter in front of Alexandra Maguire and dumps the body in a steep ravine outside town.