The Midnight Breed Series Companion (37 page)

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Gresa (d.)
   Human. Albanian delivery man who is one of a pair of bad guys who pick up Jenna after she flees the Order’s compound in Boston and falsely agree to take her to the bus station. Gresa and his partner instead take Jenna to a meat-packing plant in Southie, Gresa shoots her in the thigh during a struggle in the van, then they lock her in a refrigerated room. Brock bites Gresa, then kills him by breaking his neck.

First mention in series:
Appears in Taken by Midnight.

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Grigori (d.)
   Breed male, Kade’s uncle. Younger brother to Kir and Maksim. Grigori was the family’s dark secret, a vibrant, reckless, charming youth who was too wild at heart. Grigori fell into Bloodlust and went Rogue. Maksim tells Kade that once Kir learned that Grigori’s addiction had led him to kill, Kir wrote the boy off completely, even though Kir loved him dearly. Maksim tells Kade that Kir never so much as spoke of Grigori again, and he was never the same. Later on, after Seth’s funeral at the family Darkhaven in Alaska, Kir explains to Kade that although Kade reminded him of the best in Grigori, Seth was Grigori at his worst. Kir confesses that Grigori didn’t simply disappear from the family; Kir felt duty-bound to make sure his brother could never kill again. He took his beloved brother’s life, and feared that he would one day see his sons suffer a similar impossible situation.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

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Hank Maguire (d.)
   Human. Alexandra’s stepfather. Ran a seaplane charter business in Florida when Alex was a kid. After the murders of Alex’s mother and little brother, Richie, by Rogues in Florida when Alex was nine, Hank relocated with her to Harmony, Alaska. Taught Alex to fly when she was twelve. Hank was dead from Alzheimer’s Disease six months before the timeline of Shades of Midnight.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

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Hans Friedrich Waldemar (d.)
   Breed male, corrupt Enforcement Agent located in Berlin, Germany. First introduced at the reception for Elise Chase and Tegan hosted by Andreas Reichen in Midnight Awakening. Waldemar tried to monopolize Elise’s attention, bragging to her with stories of his Agency exploits. He then later expresses his distaste for the Order and Tegan in particular, remarking that the warriors are vigilantes who deserve no respect. Elise puts Waldemar in his place, reminding him of how Tegan saved the Berlin Darkhaven from a Rogue attack in the early 1800s. Later, during the timeline of events in Ashes of Midnight, Waldemar is revealed to be part of Wilhelm Roth’s (and by extension, Dragos’s) corrupt inner circle. Andreas Reichen seeks out Waldemar and kills him by breaking his neck.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Harvard the dog
   Canine. Mixed breed terrier, shelter dog. Spared from euthanasia at a Boston shelter when Dante purchased the dog as a means of getting close to Tess. As a private joke, Dante names the pitiful creature after Sterling Chase. Tess later uses her healing ability to cure the dog of its cancer and other ailments. After Tess is brought to the compound, Dante brings the dog to her, where it becomes a part of the Order’s growing family.

First mention in series:
Appears in Kiss of Crimson.

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Heinrich Kuhn (d.)
   Breed male, director of the Rogue Rehabilitation facility in Berlin, Germany. Antagonistic toward Tegan when the warrior and Elise arrive to speak with one of the facility’s patients (see Petrov Odolf). It is later revealed that Kuhn has been approached and threatened by Marek, and out of fear of Marek, Kuhn arranges for his facility guards to drug Tegan with tranquilizers when the warrior returns to question Kuhn again in private. Tegan is given up to Marek for capture and torture, and Kuhn is swiftly beheaded by Marek after serving his purpose.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Helene (d.)
   Human. Lover of Andreas Reichen (prior to Ashes of Midnight) and owner of Berlin sex club, Aphrodite. Aware of the Breed, but she kept their secret. Raven-haired Helene also provided information to Andreas Reichen, including details on the disappearance of a girl from her club. Helene collects a name of the Breed male last seen with the girl: Wilhelm Roth, Claire’s mate and Enforcement Agency ally to Dragos. In Veil of Midnight, Roth turns Helene Minion and sends her to Reichen’s Darkhaven to facilitate the slaughter of everyone inside by armed Agents. Reichen comes home to discover her in the blood-soaked aftermath and is forced to kill her.

First mention in series:
Appears in Midnight Awakening.

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Henry Tulak (d.)
   Human. Native resident of Harmony, Alaska, lived alone in a small cabin ten miles out of town. Killed the winter before the timeline of Shades of Midnight, causes unknown, until Kade later deduces that Tulak was a victim of Kade’s brother, Seth.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Shades of Midnight.

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Henry Vachon (d.)
   Breed male, second generation. High-ranking Enforcement Agency member located in New Orleans and longtime secret ally to Dragos (aka Gerard Starkn). Henry Vachon was a participant in the 1930s abduction of Corinne Bishop and her transfer to Dragos’s breeding labs. After Hunter and Corinne collect Vachon’s name as one of her tormentors, they travel to New Orleans where Hunter later breaks into Vachon’s mansion with the intent of gathering intel on Dragos. Vachon resists compromising his alliance with Dragos, and reveals to Hunter that both Vachon and Dragos raped her the night of her abduction. Enraged, Hunter attacks Vachon and kills him. During the slaying, Hunter’s blood-reading ability shows him the location of stored records and materials from one of Dragos’s breeding labs.

First mention in series:
Appears in Deeper Than Midnight.

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“Homeboy” (d.)
   Breed male, Boston resident. Skin trader who trafficks women to sell to other Breed males or humans in the market for females. Has three human women bound, beaten and held captive beneath his club when Kade and Brock raid his place. Homeboy dresses in a long fox fur coat, tons of bling and guyliner. Keeps two white pit bulls, which Kade uses his talent on, turning the dogs on their owner during questioning.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Hugh Faulkner (d.)
   Breed male, Gen One. Blacksmith and sword maker in London, England circa 1600s. Hugh was an arrogant, nasty individual who unwisely challenged Gideon to a duel about three-hundred years before the timeline of Kiss of Midnight. Gideon proved the victor, slaying Hugh following the smith’s attempt to cheat by attacking Gideon from behind. It is later revealed that Hugh had an illegitimate son (see Cyril Smithson) who witnessed the contest and vowed to retaliate for his father’s death by murdering Gideon’s young twin brothers.

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

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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 (see Sergei Yakut) 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.

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Ida Arnold
   Human. Resident of Harmony, Alaska, and Skeeter’s mother. Unpleasant person, harangues Skeeter constantly and is nearly killed by him after he’s been turned Minion.

First mention in series:
Appears in Shades of Midnight.

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Ilsa Roth (d.)
   Breedmate, first mate of Wilhelm Roth in Germany. Ilsa was timid, a poor match for Roth. She and Andreas Reichen both earn Roth’s ire when Ilsa contradicts her mate at a public event and is reprimanded by Roth. Andreas finds the Breedmate crying in the rain and gives her his jacket before sending her home with his driver. Roth finds out and seethes with hatred for both of them. It was purported that Ilsa died in a Rogue attack thirty years before the timeline of Ashes of Midnight, but Roth later reveals to Claire that he had his first mate killed in order to pave the way to claim Claire for himself.

First mention in series:
Referenced in Ashes of Midnight.

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Irina Odolf
   Breedmate of Petrov Odolf. Elise and Tegan are introduced to Irina at a Rogue rehabilitation facility in Berlin during the timeline of Midnight Awakening. Irina is there for a supervised feeding with Petrov, whom the Order seeks to question about the Petrov family journal recovered from a Minion (see Sheldon Raines) who’d intended to deliver the book to his Master, Marek. Irina and Elise bond over the loss of their beloved mates, and Irina eventually provides Elise and the Order with additional clues to the past, including information that will assist them in finding the hiding place of the last remaining Ancient.