Kiss of Crimson (2007) (edit title/settings)

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• Dante: Warrior of the Order and Breed member
• Tess Culver: Veterinarian, Breedmate, has ability to heal.
• Ben Sullivan: Ex- boyfriend of Tess, ex-scientist that worked as a chemist for a cosmetic firm.
• Sterling (Harvard) Chase: Agent of the Boston Darkhaven.
• Nora: Assistant working for Tess.
• Lucan Thorne: Gen One Breed, Leader of the Order.
• Gideon: The Order's computer guru.
• Tegan: Gen One Breed, Warrior of the Order.
• Gabrielle Maxwell: Lucan's breedmate, her gift draws her to vampire lairs. Not affected by mind control.
• Nikolai (Niko): The youngest of the Breed. First line of defense when it comes to guns and gadgets.
• Marek: Oldest of the Gen One Breed, Lucan's brother, Former warrior of the Order.
• Elise: Sister-In-Law to Chase.
• Rio: he was gravely injured in an attack, some months ago. Warrior of the Order.
• Conlan (Con) MacConn: he was a member of the Breed, but he was killed in an attack.
• Savannah: Gideon's mate.
• Quentin Chase: Chase's brother, he is dead; Elise's mate.
• Camden Chase: Elise's son.

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• “Holy Moses on a pogo stick, he was crazy”

• “Tell me are you a good witch or a bad witch?" "Oh, I'm a very, very bad witch." Dante grunted. "My favorite.”

• “Dante and the others were Breed, a far cry from the pale, gothic vampires of human folklore. Neither undead nor devil - spawned, Dante’s kind were a hot-blooded hybrid mix of Homo sapiens and deadly other-worlder.”

• “I am not a man, Tess. I am something... else.” She might have scoffed at that if he hadn’t sounded so deadly serious. So deadly calm. He was crazy. Right. Of course he was. Off the chain, raving lunatic, psycho crazy.”

  Dante and Tess

• “Chase I can handle. “It’s the other part I’m not so sure about. You got any advice for me on that, Lucan?” “Sure.” The vampire grunted, his smile filled with dark amusement. “Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.”

  Dante and Lucan

• “I thought Gideon was a crazy fool when he first told me about all of this.” “You still think I’m a crazy fool most of the time, love. That’s part of my charm.”

  Savannah and Gideon

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• Holy Moses on a pogo stick. He was beyond crazy.

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• “Everything makes sense when I’m with you, Tess. My life makes sense, after so many years of running scared in the dark. You are the light, the reason I live. I’m bonded to you deep, woman. For me, there will never be another.”

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• “Selene could only be with Endymion at night. She wanted to be with him forever, so she begged Zeus to grant her lover eternal life. The god agreed and put the shepherd into an endless sleep, where he waits each night for his beloved Selene to visit him.”

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• “Dust off your knees, brother, because you may damn well end up walking on them before the night is through.”

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• “I would quit breathing for her, if she asked it of me,” he replied, surprising even himself with the depth of his devotion.

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• he was going to have to seriously recalibrate his idea of Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

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• “It’s always been you, Tess. I just didn’t know it until that night. I had been searching for you my whole life, connected to you by the vision of what happened today.”

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• psychometry, the talent to read the history of an object—more specifically, she could also read the history of the object’s owner. Gabrielle, the Breedmate who’d only recently come into the Order’s fold as Lucan’s woman, had an intuitive vision that drew her to vampire lairs and a strong mind that made her all but impervious to thought control, even by the most powerful of Dante’s kind. For Tess, it was the amazing ability to heal a living creature with her touch.

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• urban comforts, and the endless inspiration of the broody Atlantic Ocean. To learn more about Lara and her novels, please visit www.LaraAdrian.com.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Darkhaven: Cities where the vampires live.
• Boston: Home base of the Order
• The Order Compound: The Order's HQ; 300 ft. below an estate mansion in Boston

Organizations edit see section history

• The Order: Breed warriors sworn to protect civilian Breed and humans alike while keeping their existence a secret from mankind.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Breedmate: A female that has a birthmark in the form of a teardrop falling into the bowl of a crescent moon; the female will posses special powers.
• Minions: mind slaves of a Gen One vampire who’d made them by draining them of their humanity while bleeding them to within an inch of their lives. Minions were living, breathing humans, but they were devoid of conscience, existing only to carry out their Master’s orders.
• Crimson: a new club drug.
• the Ancients: alien creatures who arrived on Earth thousands of years ago and preyed on human blood for their survival. Their eventual sons, the hybrid progeny born of alien seed carried by human mothers, formed the first generation of the Breed.
• Dermaglyphs: Naturally occurring skin markings within the Breed. They pass down from father to son and serve as an indicator of an individual’s emotional and physical states. Dermaglyphs functioned as protective camouflage for the forebears of the race. The Ancients’ bodies were covered from head to foot. Each generation of Breed offspring is born with fewer, less elaborate glyphs as the original bloodlines dilute with Homo sapiens genes.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Kiss of Midnight, and followed by Midnight Awakening.

Preceded by Kiss of Midnight, and followed by Midnight Awakening.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lara Adrian (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2589 vol. 18
• Dewey: 813.6

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexually explicit material

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Romance › Vampires
• Books › Romance › Fantasy, Futuristic & Ghost
• Books › Romance › Gothic

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Lara Adrian: Author's website

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