The Midnight Breed Series Companion (38 page)

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Jack
   Human. Friend of Renata's. Former military, Texas drawl, gray buzz-cut hair. Jack runs a halfway house for troubled teens. House is called “Anna’s Place” in memoriam to Jack’s wife, who was killed years ago by a teen heroin addict. Jack gave Renata shelter when she was a runaway from an orphanage. Jack again provided safe haven for her, and for Nikolai, after Renata drove Niko to Jack’s place following her rescue of Niko from a Rogue rehabilitation facility outside Montreal, Quebec, where he was being drugged and held by Edgar Fabien, an ally of Dragos’s. Years ago, Jack gave Renata the four custom daggers she always carries, which bear the words, “faith,” “honor,” “courage,” and “sacrifice”—the qualities he saw in her as a young woman, and what he hoped would serve as reminders of the qualities that would see her through any situation.

First mention in series:
Appears in Veil of Midnight.

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James MacConn
   Breed male, cousin of Conlan MacConn’s, lives in Edinburgh. Dark-eyed mate of Emma MacConn. James and Emma were present with Danika at the holiday party where she first encounters a crime boss named Reiver, and his bodyguard, Brannoc (AKA Malcolm MacBain).

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

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Jamie
   Human. Gabrielle’s gay male friend in Boston. Newbury Street art gallery owner where Gabrielle’s photo exhibit was displayed in Kiss of Midnight. It is Jamie who instigates going to a nightclub after the art exhibit, which brings Gabrielle, Jamie and their friends Kendra and Megan to the club La Notte, where Gabrielle first sees Lucan Thorne and witnesses a group of vampires attacking a human in the alley outside. Later in the timeline of Kiss of Midnight, Jamie is abducted by Marek in an attempt to lure Gabrielle to him, but Jamie escapes from the vehicle at a red light. After his escape and Gabrielle’s rescue from Marek, Jamie is allowed to go free without a mind scrub, a kindness Lucan grants Gabrielle, permitting her to decide how much to tell her friend as she tells Jamie good-bye.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Jane Doe (d.)
   Human. Gabrielle’s unnamed teenage mother. Leaving home in Bangor, Maine, twenty-seven years before the timeline of Kiss of Midnight, headed for New York City with an infant Gabrielle, where she hopes to become a Rockette. On the bus ride toward Boston, Gabrielle’s mother encounters a Rogue who attacks her outside a bus station restroom. She is bitten, and narrowly escapes the death of herself and her child, rescued by the intervention of an unnamed, dark-haired man (see Lucan Thorne). Gabrielle’s mother flees with her, hiding the baby in a Dumpster, in her shock believing she was putting the infant to bed. Scared and losing hold of her sanity after the assault, the teenager is later picked up and taken to an insane asylum as a Jane Doe with no ID. She eventually cracks and commits suicide, leaving Gabrielle to become a ward of the state.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Midnight.

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Janet
   Human. Friend of Dylan’s mother, Sharon Alexander. Janet worked with Sharon at the runaway center in Brooklyn, New York. Janet is present with Dylan and two of Sharon’s other friends (see Marie and Nancy) on the trip to the Czech Republic, which Dylan attends in her cancer-stricken mother’s place. While in town for a meal, Janet attempts to match-make between Dylan and a Czech bartender (see Goran). 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, Janet and her two friends are later mind-scrubbed by Niko and Kade on Lucan’s orders. Later in the timeline of Midnight Rising, Janet helps Dylan pack up Sharon’s office at the shelter and shows Dylan a photograph of shelter benefactor, Gordon Fasso (see Dragos). Janet further assists Dylan during the timeline of Taken by Midnight, by providing old photographs of the shelter and some of the other women who once worked there (see Sister Margaret Mary Howland).

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Rising.

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Jenna Tucker-Darrow
   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.

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Joey
  Human. FedEx clerk in Boston who had to deal with an abusive customer (see Sheldon Raines). Joey assists Elise the next day when she returns to the FedEx store to pick up her “husband’s” delayed package (see Odolf family). She has no ID to prove her claim, but Joey agrees to give her the package in exchange for her son Camden’s iPod, Elise’s only memento of her deceased son.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Jonas Redmond (d.)
   Breed male, Darkhaven youth from Boston and close friend of Camden Chase. Jonas was the Breed youth whom Ben Sullivan witnessed having a violent reaction to Crimson in a Boston nightclub. Jonas continues using the drug and soon goes Rogue. The civilian is killed in an altercation with Dante outside a club, when Dante’s titanium-edged blade slices Jonas’s arm and the poison of the metal ashes the Rogue youth in the street.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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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 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.

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Kassia (d.)
   Breedmate, Dragos’s mother and mate to the Gen One and Order member, Dragos the elder. Kassia was the artist who hundreds of years ago stitched a tapestry for Lucan, commemorating the Order’s triumph over the Ancients. Unbeknownst to Lucan, the tapestry, depicting him on a rearing warhorse in front of his family’s burning castle, also contained clues to a riddle woven into the design that later would lead the Order to the hiding place of the Ancient in the Bohemian mountain cave. Kassia was very close to Tegan’s first mate, Sorcha. After Kassia’s mate, Dragos the elder, was killed by Marek, she committed suicide to avoid being tortured by Marek for the secret of the Ancient’s hiding place.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Midnight Awakening.

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Kellan Archer
   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 (see Lazaro Archer) 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.