The Midnight Breed Series Companion (41 page)

First mention in series:
Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Murphy, Officer (d.)
   Human. Uniformed Boston police officer who was posted outside Senator Clarence’s office the morning after the politician’s murder by Sterling Chase. Murphy is a big man, with facial scar that splits the dark slash of his left eyebrow. Detective Avery assigns Murphy and a couple other officers to take Tavia Fairchild to an area hotel for safekeeping, fearing she’s in danger too, because of her ties to the senator. It turns out Murphy is a Minion, something Sterling Chase realizes when he sees the officer escorting Tavia on the TV news. Murphy is killed by Chase at the hotel, when Chase arrives to rescue Tavia from the Minion. Tavia witnesses Chase breaking Murphy’s thick neck as if it were nothing, and here she begins to understand that Sterling Chase is not merely a man.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Nancy
   Human. Friend of Dylan’s mother, Sharon Alexander, since high school. Nancy is present on the trip to the Czech Republic with Sharon’s other friends (see Janet and Marie), 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, Nancy 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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Nassi (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, falsely offering to take her to the bus station. Nassi and his partner instead take Jenna to a meat-packing plant in Southie and lock her in a refrigerated room. Brock finds her, killing Nassi and his coworkers.

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Nathan
   Gen One Breed, Corinne’s son, fathered by the Ancient who was held in captivity with Dragos. Nathan has jet-black hair, but as a Hunter, his head is shaved, making visible the dermaglyphs that cover his scalp. He has almond-shaped greenish-blue eyes like his mother, and also has her ESP gift of sonokinesis. A Hunter (raised to be an assassin), Nathan was born in Dragos’s breeding laboratory thirteen years before Corinne was freed by the Order during the timeline of Taken by Midnight.

Genetically, Nathan is the half-brother of his mother’s mate, Hunter, and is also related to Tavia Fairchild and the other, undiscovered Gen One females birthed in Dragos’s labs, who are each the product of DNA blending between the Ancient and unknown Breedmates. Nathan is quiet and remote, unreadable. Though just a boy, he is expertly lethal because of his upbringing and training.

During the timeline of Deeper Than Midnight, when Corinne and Hunter find Nathan in his Minion handler’s keeping in Georgia and find a way to free him of his UV collar, Nathan at first runs away. He returns to them the next night because he realizes he has nowhere to go. The couple takes him home to the Order’s relocated, temporary headquarters in Maine, where Nathan eventually becomes friends with Mira and Kellan.

First mention in series:
Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Nigel Traherne (d.)
   Breed male, second generation. One of Dragos’s inner circle, secret lieutenants. Traherne was the only one of Dragos’s lieutenants with no direct ties to the Enforcement Agency, but was instead a well-connected, wealthy Darkhaven leader from London, England. 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. Traherne alone expresses deep reservations about Dragos’s plan, warning that an act of such magnitude cannot be undone. He reminds Dragos of recent setbacks in his operation’s missions and suggests that exposing the Breed forever to mankind is too rash a decision. He goes on to say that his mate is with child and due any day, and his two older sons have given him more than a dozen grandchildren. Traherne’s attack of conscience enrages Dragos, who orders the Breed male killed on the spot by the Hunter standing watch behind the London civilian on camera. Traherne’s neck is snapped, and Dragos continues the meeting as if the dead male never existed.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Nikolai
   Breed male, Order member and mate of Renata. Born in Siberia approximately eighty years ago, no surname taken. Niko is a thrill-seeker and a gearhead. He loves weaponry, gadgets and things that go boom. Niko custom crafts a lot of the Order’s specialty ammunition used for combat missions and killing Rogues. He is impatient and a little cocky, full of explosive energy, but far from reckless. Nikolai is the one you’d watching your back in the heat of battle, but you would more than likely find him ahead of you, blazing the trail clear of danger before you even got there. Together, Niko and Renata are parents to orphan Mira.

Hair:
sandy blond

Eyes:
glacier-blue

Unique ability:
telepathically generates rapid growth in plant life

Mate:
Renata (couple shares parental responsibility for Mira)

Hero in:
Veil of Midnight (Book 5)

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Nora (d.)
   Human. Employee at Tess’s veterinary clinic in Boston. Nora is tortured and killed by Ben Sullivan in the vet clinic after he is turned Minion by Marek.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Nurse Doublemint
   Human. One of a pair of nurses tending Sterling Chase in the medical facility he was taken to after being shot and Tasered at the Boston Police Department lineup. Chase nicknames the female “Nurse Doublemint” on account of the big wad of minty gum she chews at his hospital bedside. The nurse mentions that the lab needed to run Chase’s blood work a third time, because the results keep coming back messed up. She also remarks to her coworker (see Nurse Mike) on Chase’s condition, expressing astonishment that he could have survived so much bodily trauma. After Nurse Doublemint leaves the room, Chase begins his escape.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Nurse Mike
   Human. One of a pair of nurses tending Sterling Chase in the medical facility he was taken to after being shot and Tasered at the Boston Police Department lineup. Mike is a big man, booming Boston accented voice. He’s working on Chase, reporting his stats and preparing his medications and sedatives when his counterpart (see Nurse Doublemint) leaves to attend other hospital business. Mike thinks his patient is unconscious, but Chase is awake, waiting for his chance to make an escape. As Mike sets up the IV bag, Chase jumps on him to feed, then trances him. Chase takes the nurse’s scrubs, but the shoes are too small. Chase puts Mike in the hospital bed, scrubs his memory, then flees the medical ward on foot.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Octavia “Tavia” Fairchild
   Gen One Breed and Breedmate genetic hybrid, mate of Order member Sterling Chase; daywalker. Born in Boston twenty-seven years before the timeline of Darker After Midnight, raised by her aunt Sarah since infancy, when Tavia survived a house fire that killed her parents. Highly intelligent and capable, Tavia works as an assistant to a rising star senator in Boston. On the personal side, Tavia’s greatest limitations are the “scars” she bears from the accident, and a rare medical condition that requires frequent treatments at a specialized private clinic. What Tavia doesn’t realize--until her life collides with that of Sterling Chase, embroiled in an ongoing conflict of the Order’s--is that everything she’s been raised to believe has been a lie. She is neither human nor pure Breedmate; she is something extraordinary.

Tavia later learns the truth of her origins, including the fact that her aunt is actually a Minion tasked with supervising her upbringing and reporting to Dragos. Tavia also discovers there are other females like her when she and Chase uncover secured lab records in her doctor’s office. Together Tavia and Sterling Chase are the parents of fraternal twins, a son and daughter, Aric and Carys, born just after the close of Darker After Midnight.

Hair:
shoulder-length, caramel brown

Eyes:
spring leaf green

Breedmate mark:
on her lower back

Bloodscent:
sweet, like nectar from a forbidden vine

Unique ability:
photographic memory (also has other unusual abilities that are awakened once she learns the truth of what she is)

Mate:
Sterling Chase

Heroine in:
Darker After Midnight (Book 10)

First mention in series:
Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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Odolf, the family
   Breed family with long lineage, originating in Germany. The Odolfs were entrusted by Kassia to covertly raise her son, Dragos, upon her death. They also carried the secret of the Ancient’s hiding place in the Czech mountains. This secret drove most of the Odolf family mad, nearly all of the Breed males of this line going Rogue from the burden of the knowledge they held. The Odolf family kept a journal of their lineage, which also contained a riddle pertaining to the Ancient’s hiding place, and a clue about Dragos’s secret upbringing. Eventually, that journal left the family and was en route to Marek (see Sheldon Raines) in Boston. When the journal goes missing, intercepted by Elise and the Order, Marek turns to torturing members of the Odolf family, burning one Breed male with UV rays at Marek’s lair in the Berkshires. Only one Odolf male remains (see Petrov Odolf), a Rogue being held in a rehabilitation center in Germany.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Midnight Awakening.

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Packard (d.)
   Breed male, henchman for Edinburgh crime boss, Reiver. Packard was one of a pair of thugs sent to harm Danika after she nosed into Reiver’s business. Killed by Malcolm MacBain (aka Brannoc) at Danika’s guest cottage on MacConn lands.