The Midnight Breed Series Companion (33 page)

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Avery, Detective
   Human. Middle-aged police detective with the Boston Police Department. Avery is first introduced to Tavia Fairchild at the station, when she’s brought in to view a lineup and identify Sterling Chase as the shooter at Senator Clarence’s holiday party. Avery is a likable man, tries to make Tavia comfortable and assure her that she’s safe. Later, after Sterling Chase breaks loose from police custody and flees the station to go after Senator Clarence as a certain link to Dragos, Detective Avery meets Tavia at the senator’s office building and arranges for her safekeeping at a Boston hotel under police watch (see Murphy). Chase then confronts Avery to find out where Tavia has been taken. Avery tries to resist putting Tavia in what he feels is mortal danger from Chase, but eventually relents and gives up her location. Chase mind scrubs the detective, but leaves him unharmed out of respect for the human’s obvious care for Tavia’s wellbeing. Detective Avery is seen again, after Boston is in the midst of the mass Rogue attacks. He is in shock over the situation, like the rest of the population, but relieved to see Tavia is alive and well.

First mention in series:
Appears in Darker After Midnight.

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Ben Sullivan (d.)
   Human. Former chemical engineer and research development manager for a cosmetics company in Boston, fired for his staunch opposition to animal testing. Ben’s views brought him into veterinarian Tess Culver’s social circle two years before the timeline of Kiss of Crimson, and the pair were briefly romantic, although Ben remains possessive of Tess after the breakup.

Ben is not as ethical as he seems; uses his chemical engineering skills to manufacture drugs for the dance club scene on the side. When an anonymous patron (see Marek) approaches him to make one of his concoctions, a red-powder substance similar to Ecstasy called Crimson, Ben takes the offer. Ben does not realize that his patron is a vampire and that Crimson has a devastating effect on the Breed. After he witnesses one of those reactions in a club-goer (see Jonas Redmond), Ben phones his patron to warn him of Crimson’s unusual side-effects. After a meeting is arranged between them, Ben downloads his recipe to a flash drive and destroys all other records of the drug on his computer. He hides the flash drive in Tess’s office for safekeeping.

After a confrontation by Dante and Sterling Chase of the Order, Ben eventually is picked up by his patron and brought to undisclosed location where he is ordered to surrender the recipe for Crimson or make a new batch on the spot for analysis. When he fails both commands, Ben is turned Minion by his patron. With instructions to retrieve the flash drive he stowed in Tess’s office—evidence Tess has since discovered and turned over to Dante and the Order—Ben abducts her and brings her to the office where her assistant has been tortured and is soon killed (see Nora). Dante and members of the Order arrive not long afterward, and during a violent struggle, Ben Sullivan is killed by Dante.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Big Dave Grant (d.)
   Human. Resident of Harmony, Alaska, frequent patron of Pete’s Tavern. Loud-mouthed and combative, Big Dave instigates a wolf-hunting party with other men after the unexplained killing of the Toms family. On the wolf hunt, Big Dave instead encounters the Ancient hiding in a cave and is badly injured. Flown to the area medical center, Big Dave is later stabbed and killed there by Skeeter Arnold, who has been turned Minion.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Big Man (d.)
   Human. Berlin-area pimp who tries to intervene when Rio needs to feed from one of his girls (see Uta). Big Man pulls a knife on Rio and Rio is too close to insane with thirst to keep from retaliating. Rio kills the pimp in the alleyway.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Rising.

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Bill Keaton (d.)
   Human. Art History professor at Boston University when Savannah was attending as a freshman student, circa 1974. Keaton had an eye for his female students, including Savannah’s roommate, Rachel. Keaton and the girl are attacked by a vampire one night, after hours at the university, leaving Rachel dead and Keaton hospitalized. It is later revealed that Keaton was turned Minion during the attack and is working in league with one of Gideon’s longtime enemies from England (see Cyril Smithson). Gideon kills Keaton following a confrontation that leaves Gideon severely injured.

First mention in series:
Appears in A Touch of Midnight (novella).

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Bobby Alexander
   Human. Dylan’s stepfather, husband of Sharon Alexander and father of their two sons, Morrison and Lennon. Bobby was a drunk and a scam artist, responsible for the car accident that killed Morrison as a teen and drove Dylan’s other brother, Lennon, to cut all ties to the family and join the military. When Dylan was a young girl, Bobby read her diary and saw entries about the dead women she saw with her ESP gift. He tried to cash in on his daughter’s talent, but Dylan couldn’t control her gift on command. Bobby eventually abandoned the family when Dylan was twelve years old and never returned.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Midnight Rising.

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Boston Police Department file clerk, unnamed (d.)
   Human. Working at the police station the night Gabrielle came in, already serving as a Minion for an unnamed Master (see Marek). Clerk calls his Master with Gabrielle’s unlisted phone number and address after she makes her report about a vampire attack outside La Notte nightclub. He is later spotted by Gabrielle when he follows her in daylight hours while she is taking pictures. He took off and Gabrielle attempted to chase him, but lost him in the city.

The clerk is present at the station the next time Gabrielle arrives there looking for “Detective” Lucan Thorne. Clerk has a private altercation with another cop (see Officer Carrigan), during which time the clerk stabs the other man to death in a stairwell at the station. The clerk then goes after Gabrielle, after seeing her speaking to Lucan on the street. The clerk attempts to run Gabrielle down with his car, but Lucan intervenes. Realizing the human is Minion, Lucan kills him, tearing out the clerk’s throat in front of Gabrielle, terrifying her and for the first time exposing Lucan to her as one of the Breed.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Brent (d.)
   Breed male who picks up Gabrielle’s friend, Kendra, at the nightclub in Boston. Kendra and Brent become inseparable, and it later turns out that Brent has gone Rogue, presumably under the influence of Marek, Lucan’s corrupt brother. Brent is responsible for the suicide bombing in the underground train stop in Boston that kills Conlan, his identity discovered by Gabrielle when she’s at the Order’s compound and views video surveillance footage from the scene.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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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.

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-C-

Camden Chase (d.)
   Breed male, only son of Quentin and Elise Chase in Boston Darkhaven. At age eighteen, Camden began to rebel and ended up leaving home. He was one of a growing number of Breed youth who began disappearing from their Darkhavens during the timeline of Kiss of Crimson. It is later revealed that Camden and his friends were becoming addicted to a new narcotic called Crimson, which induces blood thirst and feelings of euphoria and power. Camden in particular was in danger, because he was a test subject of Crimson’s creator (see Ben Sullivan). Cam was held prisoner and fed large doses of the drug. He developed Bloodlust and soon turned Rogue, killing a human neighbor of Sullivan’s and bolting when his uncle, Sterling Chase, shows up at the crime scene and attempts to reason with him. Cam later arrives home at his family’s Darkhaven, fully Rogue. When the youth appears to be intent on lunging for his mother, Elise, Sterling Chase shoots him dead with a titanium-filled bullet in front of her.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Carrigan, Officer (d.)
   Human. Carrigan was the soon-to-retire officer at the Boston police station who took Gabrielle’s report about the vampire attack outside La Notte nightclub. Carrigan did not believe her, and is annoyed when she returns a few nights later looking for “Detective” Lucan Thorne (the false credentials Lucan gave her at her apartment). Carrigan treats Gabrielle rudely, then turns his bluster on a clumsy file clerk who turns out to be a Minion. Carrigan is stabbed in the neck by the Minion, who kills the cop in a quiet stairwell of the station after their verbal altercation.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Chad Bishop
   Human. Resident of Harmony, Alaska. Chad was partying with Annabeth Jablonsky, Teddy Toms, Skeeter Arnold and others the night Teddy and his family were killed by the Ancient. Made fun of Teddy and his stutter. Chad is no relation to the Breed family named Bishop.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.