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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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.
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Charlotte “Lottie” Bishop Corinne's adopted Breedmate sister, grew up together at the Bishop family Darkhaven in Detroit. Lottie is five years younger than Corinne, and currently lives in a London Darkhaven with her mate. Has two grown sons, one of which has his own Breedmate and son.
First mention in series: Referenced in Deeper Than Midnight.
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Christophe Archer (d.) Breed male from Boston, second-generation. Son of Lazaro Archer, father of Kellan. Christophe comes reluctantly to the Order with Lazaro, seeking help after Kellan’s abduction. Christophe is the typical Darkhaven-bred vampire, wealthy, well-connected, looks down slightly on the Order and their aggressive methods. But when his son is in danger, Christophe is ready to do anything, give anything, to have him back. Christophe is killed by corrupt Dragos ally, Enforcement Agent Freyne, outside the building in Boston where Kellan was being held.
First mention in series: Appears in Taken by Midnight.
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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.
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Coleman Hogg Human. Dylan’s boss at the tabloid magazine, unpleasant man. He was unhappy about her last-minute trip to Europe in her mother’s place, threatening that if she wanted to keep her job, she’d better come back with some big story ideas. Dylan later sends him photos and an outline of her Czech Republic vampire story, but further aggravates him when she is forced to extend her stay out of the country. He eventually fires her via voicemail. After the Order finds out about the story and photos Dylan sent the magazine, Lucan orders Gideon to infect the magazine’s computers with a virus and sends Niko and Kade to mind scrub Coleman Hogg.
First mention in series: Referenced in Midnight Rising.
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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 (see Brent) 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 (see Connor MacConn) together at the time he was killed. Conlan’s funeral rite was the first to occur within the current timeline of the series.
First mention in series: Appears in Kiss of Midnight.
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Connor MacConn 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.
First mention in series: Appears in Ashes of Midnight as an infant.
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Corinne Bishop 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 (see 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.
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Curtis (d.) Human. Newer kid at Anna’s Place (see Jack). It is later discovered that Curtis is a Minion of Edgar Fabien’s, after Curtis spots the Order warrior, Nikolai, recuperating in a garage apartment at the halfway house with Renata. Curtis’s report to Fabien results in a team of Enforcement Agents swarming Anna’s Place. In the melee, Nikolai manages to get his hands on Curtis but before he can get the Minion to tell him who his Master is, the human has a knife in hand and slices his own throat open, killing himself.
First mention in series: Appears in Veil of Midnight.
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Cyril Smithson (d.) Breed male. Unacknowledged son of Gideon’s long-ago enemy in London, Hugh Faulkner, the sword-maker. Cyril witnessed the duel where Gideon killed Hugh, and the young Breed male swore a secret vengeance. Cyril sent Rogues to slaughter Gideon’s young brothers and retrieve the sword Hugh lost in the contest against Gideon. Soon afterward, Cyril left E
ngland to begin a new life of wealth and privilege in Boston under the name Smithson.
He crosses paths with Gideon again when the sword inadvertently ends up in a collection of Colonial artifacts donated to Boston University, where Savannah Dupree learns of its ignoble past through her ESP touch, which sets into motion events that bring Gideon and Cyril into conflict once again. Cyril Smithson later follows Savannah and Gideon to Louisiana, where he shoots both of them in front of Savannah’s sister’s house. Gideon kills Cyril before saving Savannah’s life with his blood bond. To this day, one of Cyril’s bullets remains embedded in Gideon’s brain, crippling his ESP ability and preventing him from taking on combat missions.