The Order and Male Breeds

Andreas Reichen 



Breed male, mate of Claire Samuels Roth. Born more than three hundred years ago in Germany, Andreas Reichen was leader of a Berlin Darkhaven. Reichen is smooth and sophisticated, cultured and cool—the ultimate charmer. Although not formally trained as a warrior, Reichen has been long acquainted with Tegan, who assisted the German Darkhaven leader with the elimination of a band of Rogues who’d been preying on civilians in his area in 1809. Reichen and Claire had been in love about fifty years before the timeline of Midnight Awakening, but the couple was betrayed by Wilhelm Roth and they endured a long separation before reuniting in Ashes of Midnight.  During his time apart from Claire, Reichen took a human lover, sex club owner Helene. The relationship ended in tragedy when, during the timeline of Veil of Midnight, Helene was turned Minion and led Enforcement Agents into the Darkhaven to slaughter all inside.  Reichen comes upon the aftermath and has to kill his human lover in an act of mercy. He then burns his Darkhaven to the ground with a massive fireball, conjured by the power of his ESP ability.  Reichen and Claire are now mated and reside in their Darkhaven in Newport, Rhode Island. Reichen is currently a member of the Order, serving primarily on covert overseas missions while he works to gain control over his pyrokinesis.
  • Hair: chestnut brown waves, generally worn loose
  • Eyes: hazel
  • Unique ability: pyrokinesis
  • Mate: Claire Samuels Roth
  • Hero in: Ashes of Midnight (Book 6)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.


Brock 



Breed male, Order member. Mate of Jenna Tucker-Darrow. Born in Detroit, Brock is 110+ years old. He was recruited into the Order along with Kade, a few months after Conlan’s death. In the 1930s, Brock served as security detail and bodyguard for the Bishops, a prominent Darkhaven family in Detroit, Brock being personally responsible for one of their adopted Breedmate daughters, Corinne. When she went missing in the city at eighteen years old and was presumed dead, Brock blamed himself, a burden of guilt he carried even as he joined the Order. Good-natured with his comrades, but merciless with those who cross him, Brock felt unworthy of being loved or trusted with another person’s life, until he was tasked with protecting an injured human woman, Jenna, brought back from a mission in Alaska that left her transformed in ways none of the Breed could have ever imagined was possible.
  • Hair: black, skull-trimmed
  • Eyes: dark brown
  • Unique ability: can absorb and diminish human pain and suffering with his hands
  • Mate: Jenna Tucker-Darrow (human)
  • Hero in: Taken by Midnight (Book 8)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.



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 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, Connor, together at the time he was killed. Conlan’s funeral rite was the first to occur within the current timeline of the series.


































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.






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. The swaggering wise-ass of the group, Dante has adopted the last name of Malebranche for when he’s forced to mingle among humans. Malebranche (“evil claws”) is also what he calls his weapons of choice—a pair of curved, titanium blades that he uses in hand-to hand combat against Rogues. Dante fights hard and plays hard, and despite his brashness, he is also fiercely loyal to those he cares about. His closest friend in the Order is Sterling Chase, although that friendship becomes strained and nearly broken when Chase begins displaying signs of Bloodlust and his actions start to jeopardize Order missions. Dante and Tess had intended to make Chase godfather to Xander Raphael, but they instead ask Gideon to take the honor. The relationship between Dante and Chase is on the mend again during the timeline of Darker After Midnight.
  • Hair: black
  • Eyes: whiskey-colored
  • Unique ability: cursed with premonitions of death
  • Mate: Tess Culver (couple has a newborn son named Xander Raphael)
  • Hero in: Kiss of Crimson (Book 2)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.


































Breed male, Order member, mate of Dylan Alexander. Born in Spain, sometime in the early 1900s. Never knew his father, a Rogue who raped Rio’s sixteen-year old mother and left her pregnant with a child she would fear and despise as a monster. Later, orphaned as a young boy after men from the village raided his mother’s cottage and killed her, Rio was found around the age of five and raised by an area Darkhaven. They taught him what he was and how to survive. They also gave the boy who was given no name by his mother, and who thought of himself as an abomination because of his “manos del diablo”—his lethal, devil’s hands—an elegant, meaningful name: Eleuterio de la Noche Atanacio. Despite his tragic past and a more recent betrayal by his first Breedmate, Eva, that left him terribly scarred and nearly destroyed him, Rio remains one of the most noble, honorable members of the Order. He is mated to Dylan Alexander, whom he encountered in the Czech mountains, after Eva’s ghost led Dylan to the cave where Rio was hiding.
  • Hair: dark brown, thick and wavy
  • Eyes: topaz
  • Unique ability: cursed with power to kill with his touch, particularly when provoked
  • Mate: Eva (deceased); Dylan Alexander
  • Hero in: Midnight Rising (Book 4)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.



Gideon 




Breed male, Order member. Mate of Savannah Dupree. Born in England in 1602. Renown for his skill with a sword, Gideon had worked independently to eliminate Rogues, but sought out Lucan to join the Order after Gideon’s young twin brothers, Simon and Roderick, were killed in a Rogue attack outside their London Darkhaven. Gideon is the Order’s resident genius, responsible for all the technology and even performs as the compound’s medic when needed. No longer runs combat missions due to irreparable brain injury sustained during the rescue of his Breedmate, Savannah thirty-plus years before the timeline of Kiss of Midnight. Gideon still carries a bullet lodged deep in his brain after that confrontation with Cyril Smithson, which has crippled his ESP talent and impacted his eyesight so that he must wear some form of sunglasses at all times.
  • Hair: blond, cropped/spiky cut
  • Eyes: sharp blue, usually glancing over the rims of pale blue or silver shades
  • Unique ability: power to see life energy through solid mass (talent lost due to injury)
  • Mate: Savannah Dupree
  • Hero in: A Touch of Midnight (Series prequel novella, Book 0.5)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.


Hunter 




Gen One Breed, Order member. Mate of Corinne Bishop. Born August 8, 1956, Hunter was conceived and raised in a covert laboratory environment under the control of Dragos. Given no name at birth, like the rest of his lab-bred assassin brothers, this lethal Breed male answers to the name of the role he was created to fill: Hunter. After his rearing in Dragos’s labs, Hunter’s home base was a meager farmhouse in Vermont, where he lived in an unfurnished, bare-floored cellar, tended by a Minion handler assigned to him since birth. Like all others raised to be Dragos’s personal army of assassins, Hunter had been fitted from childhood with a black electronic collar that contained an ultraviolet light source. This UV collar, if tampered with or triggered remotely by Dragos, would detonate and kill him instantly.Hunter has a special affection for Mira, who, as a child, unwittingly prevented him from carrying out one of his assassination missions when he looked into the young seer’s gaze and saw the girl would one day spare his life. She made good on that vision later, during the timeline of Veil of Midnight, and because of her, Hunter joined the Order’s fight against Dragos. Hunter was a virgin until he met and became involved with Corinne Bishop while charged with escorting her to her family’s Darkhaven in Detroit. Hunter and Corinne are now parents to her son, Nathan, also a Gen One trained assassin.
  • Hair: close-shorn, brownish blond
  • Eyes: golden, hawk-like
  • Unique ability: blood-reader (Breed and Breedmates only, does not work on humans)
  • Mate: Corinne Bishop
  • Hero in: Deeper Than Midnight (Book 9)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.


Kade 
































Breed male, Order member and mate of Alexandra Maguire. Close friends with Brock. Born more than one hundred years ago, raised on his parents’ 10,000 acre Darkhaven wilderness compound outside Fairbanks, Alaska. Kade had been with the Order for about a year when Shades of Midnight opens, recruited by Nikolai, whom Kade had met decades earlier. Kade is a twin, had an identical brother, Seth, back home in Alaska. The untamed nature of his homeland is in Kade’s veins. He is quick and impulsive and loyal, but also haunted by a darkness that lives inside him. He is forced to confront that darkness when a string of human slayings—obvious vampire attacks—in the Alaskan bush send him back home to investigate for the Order.
  • Hair: thick, spiky black
  • Eyes: wolf-like silver, fringed with inky lashes
  • Unique ability: can connect psychically with predator animals, experience their senses, direct their actions with a thought
  • Mate: Alexandra Maguire
  • Hero in: Shades of Midnight (Book 7)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Awakening.






Breed male, third generation. Son of Christophe Archer, grandson of Lazaro and Eleanor Archer. Kellan is fourteen years old during the timeline of Taken by Midnight, where he is first introduced in the series as the Darkhaven teen of a prominent Boston family who’s abducted and held for ransom by Dragos’s men. Kellan’s abduction was actually a ruse meant to give Dragos the chance to find the location of the Order’s Boston compound, a goal achieved when the Order rescues the teen and brings him and his grandfather, Lazaro, into Order protection at their headquarters. It is soon discovered that Dragos embedded a GPS device in Kellan’s stomach, which the boy vomits up, alerting the Order that their longtime secret compound has been compromised.  Kellan Archer is a sullen boy, bereft over the loss of his parents and all but one of his family members in a Darkhaven explosion carried out at Dragos’s command. Mira befriends Kellan immediately, deciding he will be her best friend whether he likes it or not (he doesn’t). During his recuperation with the Order, Kellan continues to withdraw, refusing to feed until Lucan takes him out to hunt in Darker After Midnight. He wants to join the Order for revenge on Dragos, but Lucan denies him, telling him he’s too young and wants it for the wrong reason. Later on in Darker After Midnight, Kellan takes part in a snowball fight with Nathan. When Mira gets hit with one of Nathan’s volleys, Kellan reacts with swift, protective fury. The two teen vampires grapple, and Kellan, sensing Nathan’s lethal skill and training, asks him to teach him everything he knows. Although Kellan is only a teenager as of the timeline of Darker After Midnight, his full romantic story is told twenty years afterward in Edge of Dawn.
  • Hair: ginger as a teen; brownish copper, the color of an old penny, as an adult
  • Eyes: hazel
  • Unique ability: can read a human’s true intentions with his touch
  • Mate: Mira
  • Hero in: Edge of Dawn (Book 11)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.


































Gen One Breed. Jet black hair, dark blue eyes. Appears to be around thirty years old, but is close to one-thousand years old. Lazaro has many regrets, including that he did not join Lucan and the Order during the war with the Ancients in the mid-1300s, and that he again refused Lucan’s call to act when it became evident in present day that Dragos was intent on eliminating the Gen One population. Lazaro and his kin have lived in the New England area for a century or so. Lazaro blames himself for the violence visited on his family by Dragos: the abduction of his grandson, Kellan; the slaying of Lazaro’s son, Christophe; and the destruction of the Archer Darkhaven by Dragos, which killed Lazaro’s longtime Breedmate, Eleanor, and the rest of their kin living in the Boston residence. Lazaro begins working closely with the Order afterward, offering up one of his unused Darkhaven retreats in Maine as temporary headquarters after the Boston compound is compromised to Dragos and the humans. Lazaro also shares with Lucan some history about the Ancients, that Lazaro’s sire attended secret gatherings with the other Ancients and taught Lazaro some of their language.
  • Hair: jet black
  • Eyes: dark blue
  • Unique ability: unknown
  • Mate: Eleanor (deceased)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.







Gen One Breed, leader of the Order and mate of Gabrielle Maxwell. The youngest of three brothers, the other two deceased (Evran and Marek). Lucan is no less than nine hundred years old. Founder of the Order in mid-1300s in Eastern Europe with Tegan, Marek, and five other Gen One Breed warriors. Led the uprising against the Ancients during same period, following the killing of Lucan’s mother at his father’s hands. The war against the Ancients resulted in the slaying of all but one, who was secretly hidden for centuries by Dragos. After the Order eventually dissolved in Europe, Lucan later established a Boston headquarters in 1898 with Gideon in an effort to combat Rogues in that city. Lucan is considered one of the most formidable Breed males in existence. As a Gen One, particularly one who’s seen firsthand the devastating results of what Bloodlust can do to one of his kind, Lucan’s greatest fear is losing himself to blood addiction. It is a fear he hides behind his contempt toward Rogues, but deep inside he dreads turning into the monster his father was. Lucan drives a black Maybach and carries two titanium-edge swords, in addition to other weaponry.
  • Hair: silky jet-black, falls to near his collar
  • Eyes: piercing pale gray
  • Unique ability: hypnotic manipulation
  • Mate: Gabrielle Maxwell
  • Hero in: Kiss of Midnight (Book 1)
  • First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.






Breed male, mate to Danika MacConn. Highlands-born Malcolm is more than four-hundred years old, lives in a fifteenth-century stone castle outside Edinburgh, Scotland. Mal was as close as a brother to Conlan MacConn, the pair of Breed males both neighbors and brothers-in-arms who rode into many battles together. They also saw Danika for the first time together, and both were mesmerized by the Nordic blond beauty. Malcolm tried to impress her, seduce her with his dark, cynical charm. But it was Con who won Danika’s hand in the end. Malcolm harbored no ill will for his friend’s lucky match, but he secretly loved Danika for a long time. Mal remained unmated until very recently, when a young Breedmate named Fiona stole his heart with her innocence and sweetness. Mal and Fiona mated and soon were expecting a child, but Fiona met with tragedy in Edinburgh while shopping on her own. A blood club supplying pimp grabbed her off the street, intending to hand her over to an area crime boss, Reiver. She fought back and was stabbed and killed. Malcolm raced to the city in daylight hours to find her, and suffered UV burns and a savage knife wound across his face when he confronted the pimp. Vowing to avenge his slain mate and unborn son, Malcolm adopts a new name, Brannoc, and covertly infiltrates the crime boss’s organization with a plan to destroy him from the inside.
  • 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).
































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.





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 halfbrother 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.






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.




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.



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 (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.



Xander Raphael “Rafe” Malebranche 




Breed male, son of Dante and Tess. Born December 17, during the timeline of Deeper Than Midnight. His godfather was to be Sterling Chase, but conflict between Chase and Dante made the new parents look in another direction. During the timeline of Darker After Midnight, week-old Rafe is presented to the Order and to his godparents, Gideon and Savannah. Rafe enters the series again as a young adult and new member of the Order in Edge of Dawn.


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