The Midnight Breed Series Companion (34 page)

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Charlotte “Lottie” Bishop
   Corinne's adopted Breedmate sister, grew up together at the Bishop family Darkhaven in Detroit. Lottie is five years younger than Corinne, and currently lives in a London Darkhaven with her mate. Has two grown sons, one of which has his own Breedmate and son.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Christophe Archer (d.)
   Breed male from Boston, second-generation. Son of Lazaro Archer, father of Kellan. Christophe comes reluctantly to the Order with Lazaro, seeking help after Kellan’s abduction. Christophe is the typical Darkhaven-bred vampire, wealthy, well-connected, looks down slightly on the Order and their aggressive methods. But when his son is in danger, Christophe is ready to do anything, give anything, to have him back. Christophe is killed by corrupt Dragos ally, Enforcement Agent Freyne, outside the building in Boston where Kellan was being held.

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Claire (Samuels Roth) Reichen
   Breedmate of Order member Andreas Reichen. Claire Samuels was born more than fifty years ago, the daughter of an American peace worker and a Zimbabwean village doctor. Raised by her mother’s wealthy Newport, Rhode Island, family after violence in Africa killed both her parents, Claire, a gifted pianist, later attended university in Germany. She was attacked there one night by a creature that tried to bite her, but was spared by another of his kind, a Breed male named Wilhelm Roth. Roth, already mated, took Claire to his Darkhaven as his ward.

There she learned about the Breed and her place in their world as a Breedmate. She also fell in love with a charming, if reckless, Breed male from Berlin, Andreas Reichen. But while Claire anticipated Andreas’s proposal to be his mate, instead he left her without a word. Spurned and heartbroken, Claire later capitulated to Roth after his Breedmate was killed and he offered to take her as his mate. Years later, that choice would return to haunt her, when Andreas Reichen enters Claire’s life again, on a mission of bloody-minded vengeance against the villain who is her mate.

Hair:
soft black

Eyes:
deep brown

Breedmate mark:
right side of her neck, by the pulse point

Bloodscent:
vanilla and warm spices

Unique ability:
dreamwalker

Mate:
Andreas Reichen

Heroine in:
Ashes of Midnight (Book 6)

First mention in series:
Appears in Ashes of Midnight.

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Coleman Hogg
   Human. Dylan’s boss at the tabloid magazine, unpleasant man. He was unhappy about her last-minute trip to Europe in her mother’s place, threatening that if she wanted to keep her job, she’d better come back with some big story ideas. Dylan later sends him photos and an outline of her Czech Republic vampire story, but further aggravates him when she is forced to extend her stay out of the country. He eventually fires her via voicemail. After the Order finds out about the story and photos Dylan sent the magazine, Lucan orders Gideon to infect the magazine’s computers with a virus and sends Niko and Kade to mind scrub Coleman Hogg.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Midnight Rising.

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Conlan MacConn (d.)
   Breed male, first mate of Danika for more than four-hundred years. The couple lived in the Scottish Highlands for centuries, before Con’s sense of duty brought them to America about a hundred years ago, where he later pledged his sword to the Order. Red-haired, handsome, good-natured Conlan was a member of the Order in Boston until killed in action by a Rogue’s suicide bombing (see Brent) on a Boston train.

Conlan was approximately five hundred years old at the time of his death, the son of a Scottish chieftan’s (Breedmate) daughter and Breed male. Conlan and Danika had been mated for upwards of four hundred years and were expecting their first child (see Connor MacConn) together at the time he was killed. Conlan’s funeral rite was the first to occur within the current timeline of the series.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Connor MacConn
   Breed male, Danika and Conlan’s son. Connor was unborn when his father, Conlan, was killed in action in Boston. Danika relocated to Denmark to have her son, and during the timeline of Ashes of Midnight, the boy is a blond, blue-eyed toddler of less than two years when Andreas Reichen and Claire seek shelter with Danika while on the run from Wilhelm Roth and Dragos. Several months later in the series timeline, in the novella, A Taste of Midnight, Connor and his mother are visiting Conlan’s family in Scotland for the Christmas holiday. Danika dreads that her son will grow up one day to become a warrior like his father.

First mention in series:
Appears in Ashes of Midnight as an infant.

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Corinne Bishop
   Breedmate of Order member Hunter. Born the summer of 1917, Corinne had been abandoned at the back door of a Detroit hospital just hours after her birth. Adopted by a prominent Breed family, the Bishops, the infant Breedmate was raised in a life of luxury until her eighteenth birthday, when she went missing while out at a jazz club. Corinne was abducted while under the watch of one of her family’s Darkhaven security detail (see Brock) and was eventually presumed dead, a lie perpetuated by the actions of her Darkhaven father, Victor Bishop.

After seventy-five years of imprisonment in Dragos’s breeding labs, Corinne is rescued by the Order, along with several other captured Breedmates. It is discovered that she and the others were part of genetic and reproductive experiments, where Corinne gave birth to a son thirteen years ago, a boy she named Nathan. Her quest to find him, and to stop the villain responsible for her suffering, brings Corinne into the middle of the Order’s war against their enemy—and into the arms of one of the most lethal members of the Order, the Gen One former assassin called Hunter. Corinne loves jazz music, particularly Bessie Smith.

Hair:
long, sleek ebony

Eyes:
almond shaped, greenish-blue

Breedmate mark:
back of her right hand

Bloodscent:
bergamot and violets

Unique ability:
sonokinesis

Mate:
Hunter

Heroine in:
Deeper Than Midnight (Book 9)

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Curtis (d.)
  Human. Newer kid at Anna’s Place (see Jack). It is later discovered that Curtis is a Minion of Edgar Fabien’s, after Curtis spots the Order warrior, Nikolai, recuperating in a garage apartment at the halfway house with Renata. Curtis’s report to Fabien results in a team of Enforcement Agents swarming Anna’s Place. In the melee, Nikolai manages to get his hands on Curtis but before he can get the Minion to tell him who his Master is, the human has a knife in hand and slices his own throat open, killing himself.

First mention in series:
Appears in Veil of Midnight.

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Cyril Smithson (d.)
   Breed male. Unacknowledged son of Gideon’s long-ago enemy in London, Hugh Faulkner, the sword-maker. Cyril witnessed the duel where Gideon killed Hugh, and the young Breed male swore a secret vengeance. Cyril sent Rogues to slaughter Gideon’s young brothers and retrieve the sword Hugh lost in the contest against Gideon. Soon afterward, Cyril left England to begin a new life of wealth and privilege in Boston under the name Smithson.

He crosses paths with Gideon again when the sword inadvertently ends up in a collection of Colonial artifacts donated to Boston University, where Savannah Dupree learns of its ignoble past through her ESP touch, which sets into motion events that bring Gideon and Cyril into conflict once again. Cyril Smithson later follows Savannah and Gideon to Louisiana, where he shoots both of them in front of Savannah’s sister’s house. Gideon kills Cyril before saving Savannah’s life with his blood bond. To this day, one of Cyril’s bullets remains embedded in Gideon’s brain, crippling his ESP ability and preventing him from taking on combat missions.

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.