Deeper Than Midnight (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Hunter: "Mr. Smith" - Gen One Breed warrior; Born and bred to be a weapon wielded by Dragos; Has chiseled, forbidding features and a six-and-a-half-foot frame of bulky muscle; Has thick short, spiked blond hair and golden eyes; Has the ability to read another Breed's memories when he drinks their blood
• Corinne Bishop: Breedmate kidnapped when she was 18 and held prisoner for decades by the malevolent vampire Dragos to be used for breeding his soldiers; Has a teardrop-and-crescent-moon birthmark on her right hand; Has a petite, five-foot-four frame and fair skin; Has long ebony hair and large greenish blue eyes that taper delicately at their outer corners; 93 years old; Her talent is to manipulate sonokinetic energy, she can grasp any sound and manipulate it to deafening heights
• Sterling Chase: "Harvard" - Breed warrior; Ex-Enforcement Agent; Joined the Order a year ago; Elise's ex-brother in law; Dante's closest friend; Has golden-brown hair and blue eyes; Can manipulate shadows around himself; Was secretly obsessed with Elise until recently; He is now battling Bloodlust and on the verge of going Rogue
• Lucan Thorne: Gen One Breed warrior; Gabrielle's mate; The Order's founder and leader; One of the longest-lived, most formidable elders of the Breed nation; Over 900 years old; Has dark hair and gray eyes
• Gabrielle Maxwell: Lucan's Breedmate; Her gift draws her to vampire lairs; Not affected by mind control; Has auburn hair and brown eyes
• Tegan: "T" - Gen One Breed warrior; Elise's mate; One of the Order's founding members; Has the ability to read emotions with one touch; Has green eyes
• Elise: Tegan's Breedmate; Chase's ex-sister in law; Quentin's widow; Has ability to hear humans' thoughts; A pretty blonde with pale lavender eyes
• Brock: Breed Warrior; Jenna's mate; Has the ability to absorb human pain and discomfort; Corinne's childhood bodyguard; Was Corinne's confidant and a true friend
• Jenna Tucker-Darrow: Brock's mate; Alex's best friend; Former Alaska state trooper; Was attacked by the ancient and survived with complications; Is not a Breedmate but has a rice-size bit of alien DNA and biotech material in her spinal cord; Has a dermaglyph that spontaneously appeared on the nape of her neck and has now begun to creep around toward her shoulders.
• Gideon: British-born Breed Warrior; Savannah's mate; Resident Genius; Has cropped blond hair and blue eyes; Wears rimless shades with pale blue lenses
• Savannah: Gideon's Breedmate; Has a teardrop-and-crescent-moon birthmark on her left shoulder blade; Has the ability of reading the history of an object with one touch; Has dark brown eyes; 48 years old
• Andreas Reichen: A trusted ally of the Order; Claire's mate; Breed Vampire whose Berlin Darkhaven was massacred by Wilhelm Roth and others
• Claire Reichen: Previously "Claire Roth" - Andreas' Breedmate; Has the ability to walk into dreams
• Mira: "Mouse" - Young Breedmate; Oracle; Renata & Nikolai's adopted daughter; 8 & 1/2 years old
• Renata: "Rennie" - Nikolai's Breedmate; Mira's adoptive mother; Trained Warrior who has the ability to mind-blast vampires; Has chin-length brunette hair
• Nikolai: "Niko" - Breed Warrior; Renata's mate; Mira's adoptive father; Gear Head and Adrenaline Junkie; First line of defense when it comes to guns and gadgets
• Tess Culver: Dante's very pregnant Breedmate; Has the ability to heal with just a touch; Was a veterinarian; Has blonde hair and aqua eyes
• Dante: Breed Warrior; Tess' mate; Chase's closest friend; Has dark hair
• Alexandra Maguire: "Alex" - Kade's Breedmate; Jenna's best friend; Has the ability to know if someone's lying to her; Was a bush pilot in Alaska; A tall, athletic-looking female
• Kade: Breed Warrior; Alex's mate; His gift allows him to connect with animals; Grew up in Alaska; Has dark, spiky hair
• Dylan Alexander: Rio's Breedmate; Has the ability to see and speak to dead Breedmates; Was a journalist; Has freckles on her face and fiery hair
• Rio: Breed Warrior; Dylan's mate; Has topaz eyes and a web of combat scars on the left side of his face
• Mathias Rowan: Enforcement Agency director for the region; Chase's friend
• Kellan Archer: A Darkhaven youth survived a family genecide attemp with his Gen one grandfather; 14 years old; Only surviving member of his family besides his grandfather, Lazaro
• Lazaro Archer: Kellan's grandfather; One of the few remaining Gen Ones in the Breed population; A civilian; Nearly 1,000 years old; Only surviving member of his family besides his grandson, Kellan; Is six foot five and formidable, looks like a warrior; Has dark blue eyes
• Christophe Archer: Lazaro's son; Kellan's father; Murdered at close range by Freyne
• Eleanor Archer: "Ellie" - Lazaro's Breedmate; Was killed when the family Darkhaven was blown up by Dragos
• Victor Bishop: Corrine's adoptive father; Regina's mate; Has black hair and dark brown eyes
• Regina Bishop: Corrine's adoptive mother; Victor's Breedmate; An attractive brunette female
• Charlotte Bishop: "Lottie" - Corinne's adopted younger sister; Lives in London with her mate and their two sons and newborn grandson
• Sebastian Bishop: "Basti" - Corrine's adoptive brother; Victor & Regina's only true-born child; Was handsome, studious and very sweet; Was lost to Bloodlust more than forty years ago
• Quentin Chase: "Quent" - Sterling's older brother; Elise's husband; Was killed in the line of duty for the Enforcement Agency.
• Mason: Breed guard from the Detroit Darkhaven; A kindhearted but serious Breed; A friend of Brock's; Has coppery-golden hair
• Tilda: Cook at the Detroit Darkhaven
• Amelie Dupree: Savannah's older half-sister; Lives in the swamps of Louisiana; An elderly black woman; Has silvery gray hair and clouded, milky eyes; Is blind; 72 years old
• Nathan: 13 years old; A lean, muscular boy about five foot seven; Would have silky black hair if he did not shave it all off and almond shaped, bluish green eyes; Can manipulate sonokinetic energy
• Xander Raphael: Newborn baby
• Luna: A beautiful, wolfish gray-and-white dog
• Harvard: A stubby brown terrier; A scrappy little mutt
• Taggart: Breed Enforcement Agent; Has a thick, bulbous nose, thin lips and crooked teeth
• Dragos: The Order's chief adversary; Corrupt Gen One Breed elder; Ex-director within the Enforcement Agency; Power hungry vampire with plans to take over the entire Breed community and the rest of the world.
• Murdock: Breed Enforcement Agent; Speaks with a slight southern drawl; A prissy brown-haired male with dark eyes
• Freyne: Breed Enforcement Agent; Was working with Dragos; Killed while on a mission to retrieve a kidnapped Darkhaven youth
• The Ancient: Was the last surviving other-worlder who, along with his alien brethren, had fathered the entire Breed race on Earth; Was a captive of Dragos' and used to breed with the Breedmates Dragos had captive; Is now deceased.
• Gerard Starkn: "Director Starkn" - A member of the Enforcement Agency's high council
• Henry Vachon: Breed male aligned with Dragos
• Sergei Yakut: A Gen One vampire
• Drake Masters: A wealthy business man
• Robert Clarence: "Bobby" - United States Senator; In his 30's; Has golden blond hair with a dusting of gray on either side of his temples; Is Boston's charming, most-eligible bachelor
• Tavia Fairchild: Senator Clarence's personal aide; A very tall, very attractive young woman; Has long, thick, wavy caramel-brown hair and spring-leaf green eyes

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• Boston, Massachusetts
• The Order Compound: The Order's HQ; 30 stories below an estate in Boston
• Boston Darkhaven
• Fairbanks, Alaska
• Detroit, Michigan
• New England
• Detroit Darkhaven: where Corrine's family lived
• Rhode Island: Site of Andreas' property
• Montreal, Canada
• Atlanta, Georgia
• London, England
• New Orleans, Louisiana
• Green Mountains, Vermont
• Augusta, Maine
• Blue Hills Park: in Boston
• Atchafalaya Swamp: in Louisiana
• Metairie, Louisiana
• Vermont
• Alabama
• North Carolina

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• The Order: Breed warriors sworn to protect civilian Breed and humans alike while keeping their existence a secret from mankind.
• Enforcement Agency: Organization responsible for enforcing vampire laws and hunting down Rogues.
• TerraGlobal: Company owned by Drake Masters
• Cambridge University: Add a description of this organization.
• Secret Service

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• Breed: Vampires descended from 8 alien humanoids who crash landed on earth thousands of years ago.
• Breedmate: Women who are born with unique DNA and blood properties that make them capable of sharing a life bond with members of the Breed and bearing their young. They can be identified by a teardrop-and-crescent moon shaped birthmark somewhere on their body. Every Breedmate has some kind of unique extrasensory talent or ability that makes her unique from any other.
• Dermaglyphs: a running pattern of symbols--arcing flourishes and complex geometric shapes that somewhat resemble tribal tattoos that cover a Breed's body; the stronger the bloodline the more glyphs there are- the Ancients were covered from head to toe.
• Gen One: the strongest members of the Breed; have the strength and power of roughly that of ten later-generation vampires. Direct descendents of an Ancient.
• Darkhaven: an estate where several Breed families live together in a community
• Minion: Humans bled to within an inch of their lives, they then serve their "Master" in whatever capacity is required; Obedient to their dying breath
• IID: The information database that logs nearly every known Breed individual in existence.
• Blood Club: An illegal human hunting party; A game for the most depraved vampires; Banned by Breed law for centuries, clubs that arrange the pursuit of humans as sport—and anything else a vampire could desire—have been condemned but not completely abolished.

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Taken by Midnight, and followed by Darker After Midnight.

Preceded by Taken by Midnight, and followed by A Taste of Midnight.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lara Adrian (Author)

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• Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
• Dewey: 813

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Sexually explicit material, violence

Subjects edit see section history

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

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• Lara Adrian: Author's website

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