The Midnight Breed Series Companion (44 page)

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Sorcha (d.)
   First Breedmate of Order member Tegan. They were mated during the period of the Order’s founding, mid-1300s. Sorcha was an innocent young woman, gypsy-dark looks and a sweet, trusting smile. She was abducted while Tegan was on a mission, and returned to him sometime later turned Minion. She had been abused, violated, a soulless shell. Tegan tried to make her better, feeding her his blood and draining hers, but she was too far gone. Tegan fell into Bloodlust trying to save her. Lucan locked Tegan away to help him recover, then he took Sorcha’s life to end her suffering. Tegan long held this act of mercy against Lucan. In Midnight Awakening, Tegan learns it was Marek who took Sorcha all those years ago and turned her into his Minion in an effort to extract information from her about Dragos and the hiding place of the Ancient.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Kiss of Midnight.

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Sterling “Harvard” Chase
   Breed male, former Enforcement Agent, current Order member. Son of August Chase, brother of Quentin. Mate of Tavia Fairchild. Sterling Chase was born and raised in Boston more than a century ago. Part of the Darkhaven elite, Chase comes from a well-connected, political family with deep ties to the Breed’s Enforcement Agency.

Bound by the Chase family motto, “Duty first.” Like the rest of his family, he holds several degrees from Harvard University, and before joining the Order during the timeline of Kiss of Crimson, most of Chase’s combat training was academic. This, along with his rigid, by-the-book attitude prompted Dante to nickname him “Harvard” the first time the warrior met him, although the two later became as close as brothers.

Chase’s uptight nature disguises an inner turmoil that has plagued him for many years. Those struggles have cost him family and friends, and have become dangerously more apparent in the time he’s been part of the Order. Chase’s fight to resist Bloodlust nearly costs him his friendship with Dante.

Chase and Tavia are parents to fraternal twins, a son and daughter, Aric and Carys, born soon after the close of Darker After Midnight.

Hair:
golden blond

Eyes:
blue

Unique ability:
shadow-bender

Mate:
Tavia Fairchild

Hero in:
Darker After Midnight (Book 10)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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-T-

Taggart 
Breed male, Enforcement Agent. First introduced in the series during the timeline of Deeper Than Midnight. Taggart is a big vampire posted as guard at the door of an Agency watering hole and strip joint (known as a sip-and-strip) in Boston’s Chinatown district. Taggart and Sterling Chase have a strong mutual dislike and mistrust of each other. Taggart permits Chase and Hunter to enter the club only after realizing how lethal Hunter is. Taggart appears again during the timeline of Darker After Midnight, when Dragos walks into the Enforcement Agency hangout in Chinatown and blatantly invites the Breed males there to feed from—and kill, should they wish—the humans working the club. Taggart takes part in the carnage, but goes missing afterward and does not appear again thus far in the series.

First mention in series:
Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Teddy Toms (d.)
   Human. Nineteen-year-old Native kid, resident of Harmony, Alaska. Teddy is partying with Annabeth Jablonsky, Chad Bishop, Skeeter Arnold and others the night the Ancient slaughters Teddy and his family in their rural settlement outside Harmony.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Tegan
   Gen One Breed, Order member, mate of Elise Chase. Tegan is approximately seven hundred years old. He sees no need to attempt to blend in with mankind, so he’s never bothered with a surname. One of the original members of the Order at its founding, Tegan has a reputation for being stone cold, merciless and detached, the loner of the group.

Centuries ago in Europe, his Breedmate, Sorcha, was kidnapped by a powerful Breed enemy of the Order. Bled to the point of no return, Sorcha was sent back to Tegan a Minion of the Breed male who drained her (see Marek). Tegan went mad with grief and rage, and would have been lost to Bloodlust if not for Lucan’s brutal, but necessary, intervention. Tegan thought he had cut himself off from all emotion until he crossed paths with Elise, a widowed Darkhaven Breedmate he had no right to desire.

Hair:
tawny-gold, like a lion’s mane

Eyes:
gem green

Unique ability:
reads anyone’s thoughts and emotional states with a touch

Mate:
Sorcha (deceased); Elise Chase

Hero in:
Midnight Awakening (Book 3)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Tess Culver
   Breedmate of Order member Dante. Born in rural Illinois, Teresa Dawn “Tess” Culver is twenty-six years old during the timeline of Kiss of Crimson. Tess’s true father was killed in a car accident when she was fourteen. Her mother remarried quickly to a successful local businessman. Tess’s stepfather sexually assaulted her on her seventeenth birthday, during which time he suffered a heart attack. Tess’s mother berated her daughter instead of supporting her, commanding Tess to use her special ability to “fix” him. Tess halted the man’s death, then later takes it back after discovering he has also accosted young children.

Tess flees home, staying with friends until she finished school and began a new life, eventually working as a veterinarian in her own practice. She always knew she was different, and thought moving far away from her past would keep her personal demons at bay. Late one Halloween night, however, she encountered a dark, dangerous stranger in her clinic—Dante, severely wounded in combat. When she tried to help him, he bit her in desperate need of her blood. A bond that began out of necessity soon became a deep and unbreakable love.

Dante and Tess are parents to a newborn Breed son whom they named Xander Raphael, signifying both the healer and the protector their child is destined to be.

Hair:
honey brown, long curly waves

Eyes:
aquamarine

Breedmate mark:
between the thumb and forefinger of her right hand

Bloodscent:
cinnamon and vanilla

Unique ability:
heals with her touch; she can also rescind the gift of her healing with a touch

Mate:
Dante

Heroine in:
Kiss of Crimson (Book 2)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Thane
   Breed male. Massive, built like a tank, lethal. Black hair, worn in a short queue, with a sharp widow’s peak and slashing ebony brows over hawkish green eyes. Thane is one of Reiver’s bodyguards, but it is later revealed that he is also part of an elite Enforcement Agency team out of London, sent to infiltrate Reiver’s organization with the blessing of a high-ranking Agency director in Boston, Mathias Rowan. Thane invites Malcolm MacBain to join his Enforcement Agency team at the close of A Taste of Midnight, but Mal declines in order to focus on his new Breedmate, Danika.

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

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Tilda
   Breedmate who works at the Bishop family Darkhaven in Detroit.

First mention in series:
Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Toni (d.)
   Breedmate ghost in Goth attire, who appears to Dylan at the hospital while Dylan is visiting her mother there. Toni appears again with other dead Breedmates at the shelter and warns Dylan that Gordon Fasso is Dragos.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Rising.

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United States Vice President, unnamed (d.)
   Human. Former university professor of Bobby Clarence’s in Boston, longtime friend and mentor of the up-and-coming senator. As Vice President of the United States, this man is a high-value contact of Dragos. Dragos had intended to use the Minion senator to get close to the top government officials of the nation, but instead it’s Bobby Clarence’s death that offers the best chance of bringing the Vice President into Dragos’s hands. When a last-minute security concern thwarts the plan, Dragos speeds up his operation and unleashes the Rogues soon after the slight. With the human population in chaos, Dragos arranges another meeting with the Vice President, this time at the politician’s residence in Washington, D.C. There, Dragos turns the man into his Minion after the Vice President refuses to help Dragos lead the President into his trap. The Order soon arrives on the scene, and upon killing Dragos, all of his Minions—including the Vice President—die at the same time he breathes his last.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Uta
  Human. Berlin-area prostitute who is standing in a dirty alleyway when Rio is in the city in need of a feeding. She tells him she’s off duty, nervous about her pimp (see Big Man). Rio quickly feeds from the woman.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Rising.

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-V-

Victor Bishop (d.)
   Breed male, Corinne's Darkhaven father; mate is named Regina. Victor Bishop is wealthy, well-connected and powerful. Had been allied with Enforcement Agency director Gerard Starkn (one of Dragos’s aliases) around seventy years ago, when Victor’s adopted daughter Corinne was taken captive by Dragos and another of his associates (see Henry Vachon). Victor was aware of the abduction, even permitted it, to spare any harm to his son, Sebastian. After Hunter brings Corinne home to Detroit following her rescue by the Order, Victor Bishop’s duplicity comes to light. He later contacts Henry Vachon to warn him and Dragos that they’ve been discovered. Regina overhears the conversation and confronts Victor. He is prepared to kill her to ensure her silence, but one of the Darkhaven’s security detail intervenes (see Mason). The guard shoves the wounded Victor Bishop out of a window, where he dies in the sunlight.