The Midnight Breed Series Companion (40 page)

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 putting 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.