Breedmate of Order member Kade. Alex was born and raised in
rural Florida swamp region. When she was nine years old, her mother and little brother,
Richie, were killed one night in a brutal attack by Rogues (though at the time,
she didn’t realize what the attackers truly were). Alex and her father, Hank,
fled as far as they could, settling in a small Alaskan town. Alex’s best
friends are her wolf dog, Luna, and a former Alaska State Trooper named Jenna
Tucker-Darrow. At twenty-seven, and her dad dead from Alzheimer’s, Alex ran the
family bush-piloting business, until on a supply run to the interior, she discovers a horrific crime scene thatresembles the attack on her family. This discovery
brought her into the center of an investigation being conducted by the
Order—and into the arms of Alaskan-born Breed warrior, Kade.
- Hair: warm blond
- Eyes: brown
- Breedmate mark: on the front of her left hip
- Bloodscent: honey and almond
- Unique ability: internal gauge that tells her with a touch if someone is being honest
- Mate: Kade
- Heroine in: Shades of Midnight (Book 7)
- First mention in series: Appears in Shades of Midnight.
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.
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 (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.
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,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.
- 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 Tasteof Midnight (novella, Book 9.5)
- First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.
Breedmate
of Order member Rio. Born and raised by her single mother in New York, Dylan had
two half-brothers, both also named after rock musicians: Morrison and Lennon.
Thirty-two during the timeline of Midnight Rising, Dylan Alexander was born
with a troubling gift for seeing the dead. Fearful of being taken advantage of
or shunned for this ability, she’s long tried to hide it, to deny it. As an
adult, Dylan went on to make a career for herself in journalism, until she let
a personal bias cloud her reporting. Demoted to a tabloid
rag, she stumbles across a blockbuster story while vacationing in the mountains
of the Czech Republic. This story,
exposing a mysterious
crypt hidden in the caverns, brings her face-to-face with the existence of the
Breed—and puts her in the middle of the Order’s war with a dangerous enemy bent
on world domination. It also draws her to scarred, emotionally-closed off Rio, and
into a passion for which neither of them was prepared. Dylan later learns that
the man she thought to be her father, Bobby Alexander, was actually her
stepfather, and her true father is a man her mother met in Mykonos by the name
of Zael. Through Jenna Tucker-Darrow’s investigation, it is revealed that Zael
is a likely Atlantean immortal.
- Hair: long, curling flame-red
- Eyes: gold-flecked green
- Breedmate mark: nape of her neck
- Bloodscent: juniper and honey
- Unique ability: can see and hear the spirits of dead Breedmates, but cannot communicate with them
- Mate: Rio
- Heroine in: Midnight Rising (Book 4)
- First mention in series: Appears in Midnight Rising.
Breedmate
of Order member Tegan. A ward of the Darkhavens
since she was a little girl in the slums of 19th century Boston, Elise was
raised by a prominent Breed family, the Chases. Eventually she became the
Breedmate of Quentin Chase, elder brother to Sterling Chase. Quentin died five
years before the events in Kiss of Midnight, widowing Elise. More recently,
their eighteen year-old
son, Camden, went Rogue after being exposed to a drug called
Crimson
and is since deceased, shot and killed by Sterling Chase when the Rogue might
have lashed out at his mother. After
Camden’s death, Elise wants vengeance on the individual responsible for
creating the drug that poisoned him. Her quest brings her up against Tegan from
the Order, and introduces her to a dangerous passion she cannot resist.
- Hair: light blond
- Eyes: pale lavender
- Breedmate mark: on the inside of her right thigh
- Bloodscent: heather and roses and fresh spring rain
- Unique ability: telepathically hears the sins and negative energy of humans
- Mate: Quentin Chase (deceased); Tegan
- Heroine in: Midnight Awakening (Book 3)
- First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Crimson.
Breedmate
of Order leader Lucan. Orphaned as an infant in Boston twenty-seven years before
the Midnight Breed series opens. Gabrielle’s unwed teen mother was
institutionalized, and later committed suicide, after claiming to have been
attacked by a vampire. Gabrielle doesn’t know who her father is, was raised in
foster care until being adopted by local (human) family, the Maxwells, when she
was twelve. Gabrielle had a troubled youth. At twenty-eight, she was living on
her own and had become a gifted art photographer whose images, unbeknownst to
her, often featured Breed locations. Gabrielle knew nothing about the world of
the Breed, nor her place in it as a Breedmate, until her path crossed with
Lucan’s one harrowing summer night in Boston.
- Hair: auburn
- Eyes: soft brown
- Breedmate mark: behind her left ear
- Bloodscent: night-blooming jasmine
- Unique ability: can sense, and is drawn to, areas of Breed presence
- Mate: Lucan
- Heroine in: Kiss of Midnight (Book 1)
- First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.
Human
(originally). Mate of Order member Brock. Jenna is a former Alaska State Trooper and best friend of Alexandra Maguire. Four years before timeline of Shades of Midnight, Jenna lost her husband and young daughter when a timber truck collided with the family’s vehicle on the highway in Alaska. Jenna barely survived, waking a month and a half later to learn her loved ones were gone. She quit her job as a Trooper, even though police work and helping people is a big part of her nature. Thirty-three-year-old Jenna is human, but an attack on her by the Ancient has left her changed in many ways—not the least of which being a growing dermaglyph that’s
appeared on the back of her neck. The Order brought
her from Alaska to their Boston compound to heal, aided by Brock’s
calming effect on the human. As Jenna’s stay lengthened, the Order discovered
her human DNA was being dominated by that of the creature who attacked her,
gifting her with unusual strength and abilities, and transforming into
something never seen before.
- Hair: shoulder-length, medium brown
- Eyes: hazel
- Breedmate mark: does not have one
- Bloodscent: does not have one
- Unique ability: superhuman speed and agility, unlimited language comprehension, adaptive regeneration (body learning to heal itself after injury), and other abilities yet to be revealed
- Mate: Brock
- Heroine in: Taken by Midnight (Book 8)
- First mention in series: Appears in Shades of Midnight.
Breedmate,
orphaned in Montreal and abducted at the age of eight
by the same Breed elder for whom Renata worked (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.
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.
Breedmate
of Order member Nikolai. Left by her mother as an infant at the orphanage of
the Montreal convent of the Sisters of Benevolent Mercy, Renata has no family
and never knew her father. At the age of fourteen, Renata was living on her
own. As of the timeline of Veil of Midnight, she is a twenty-something street-smart
scrapper who’s used to taking care of herself. She didn’t know she was a Breedmate,
didn’t know about her unusual ability, until two years ago when she was swept
off the streets along with several other humans and taken to be live, illegal,
game for a cruel Breed elder (Sergei Yakut). She fought her abductors, and
in the process unlocked her unique ability. Since that time, she was forced to serve
as a bodyguard for her captor. It was in this capacity that she crossed paths
with a member of the Order, Nikolai, who was on a mission in
Montreal involving Renata’s employer. While serving her abductor, Renata
also came into contact with another abductee, a young Breedmate girl named
Mira, whom Renata took under her wing. Renata carries four custom-crafted
daggers that each bear a quality that guides her life: courage, faith, honor,
sacrifice. The blades were given to her by a human friend, Jack, who gave
her shelter when she
was a young teen on her own. Since her mating to Nikolai, Renata has become an
integral player in the Order’s missions, thanks to both her
powerful ESP talent and her skill with weaponry.
- Hair: glossy black, chin-length angled bob
- Eyes: jade green, almond-shaped
- Breedmate mark: inside of her right wrist
- Bloodscent: sandalwood and rain
- Unique ability: mind-blaster (only works on Breed)
- Mate: Nikolai
- Heroine in: Veil of Midnight (Book 5)
- First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.
Breedmate
of Order member Gideon. Born and raised
in the swamps of Louisiana, Savannah has been blood-bonded to Gideon since
1974, when he saved her life at the age of eighteen while she was attending
university as a freshman student. Savannah has an elderly human half-sister,
Amelie Dupree, who still lives in Louisiana. Savannah never knew her father, a wanderer who was little
more than rumor in the family. Savannah is a nurturing woman and is the heart
of home for the Order’s compound in Boston.
- Hair: tight, short black curls
- Eyes: dark brown
- Breedmate mark: on her left shoulder blade
- Bloodscent: magnolia
- Unique ability: psychometry
- Mate: Gideon
- Heroine in: A Touch of Midnight (series prequel novella, Book 0.5)
- First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.
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.
