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He watches her from across the crowded dance club, a sensual black-haired stranger who stirs Gabrielle Maxwell's deepest fantasies. But nothing about this night--or this man--is what it seems. For when Gabrielle witnesses a murder outside the club, reality shifts into something dark and... read more
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Characters edit
- Gabrielle Maxwell: Breedmate - marked as such by teardrop and crescent moon shaped birthmark. Heroine of this book. Photographer.
- Lucan Thorne: Gen One vampire. Founder and Leader of the Order. Leader of the breed warriors and hero of this book
- Gideon: Breed, the Techie. Member of the Order. Mated to Savannah.
- Tegan: Gen One, Loner of sorts, previously mated, very volatile. Member of the Order.
- Kendra Delaney: Friend of Gabrielle taken by Bloodlust vampires and used as minion; Was a nurse
- Jamie: Gabrielle's gay Art Dealer friend
- Conlan MacConn: Member of the Order. Breed killed in attack. Breedmate of Danika.
- Megan: Friend of Gabrielle. Girlfriend of Ray.
- Nikolai: Breed, Gear Head and Adrenaline Junkie. Member of the Order.
- Danika MacConn: Breedmate of Conlan. Pregnant.
- Carrigan: a police officer.
- Ray: Police boyfriend of Megan.
- Detective Thorne: One of Lucan's many necessary identities when talking to humans
- Marek: Lucan's brother.
- Rio: Breed warrior. Member of the Order. Mated to Eva.
- Savannah: Gideon's Breedmate
- Eva: Rio's Breedmate
Quotes edit
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“Right. And maybe she had checked her brain into her panties from the first moment she had laid eyes on him.”
Gabrielle -
“They had their own personal demons as well, though none of them were the touchy-feely types looking to have Dr. Phil crawl up their ass with a flashlight. Some things were better left to the dark.”
Lucan -
“Ugh, please. Mykonos is so last year. All the pretty people are in Marbella , darling.”
Jamie -
“And war was what he was selling here tonight.”
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“He had never been one to subscribe to the notion of fate, but it seemed pretty damned clear that oneway or another this female was meant to cross his path. Oh, yeah. Cross it like a black cat. Just his luck that after centuries of dodging cosmic bullets and messy emotional entanglements, thetwisted sisters of fate and reality would decide to put him on their shit lists at the same time.”
Lucan -
“Lucan had to give Gabrielle credit. Aside from a bit of irrationality with the garlic and holy water, shehad maintained an amazingly level head through a conversation that was, no doubt, pretty hard toswallow. Vampires, ancient alien arrivals, the rising war with the Rogues, who, by the way, were gunningfor her now, too.”
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“What, you’re offering me the vampire equivalent of the Witness Protection Program?”
Gabrielle -
“'Got a present for you.' 'Really? A gift for me? Darling, you shouldn’t have.'”
Lucan - Gideon -
“Hey. Do yourself a favor and don’t get too attached to Lucan. Odds are real good that vampire’s not gonna live much longer.”
Tegan -
“'What’s your business? You know, aside, from being a diseased, bloodsucking leech.' 'World domination, of course. Really, is there anything else worth fighting for?'”
Gabrielle - Marek -
“All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha”
Dante
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Gabrielle Maxwell was a Breedmate, a human gifted with unique blood and DNA properties that complemented those of his kind. She and the few numbers like her were queens among other human females. To Lucan’s kind, a race comprised solely of males, this woman was a cherished goddess, giver of life, destined to bond in blood and bear the seed of a new vampire generation.
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Conlan, by contrast, was soft-spoken and serious, a consummate tactician. He was as graceful as a big cat next to Niko’s brash swagger, a wall of bulky muscle, his copper hair shorn beneath the black triangle of silk that wrapped his skull.
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“This male was mine, as I was his. His blood sustained me. His strength protected me. His love fulfilled me in all ways. He was my beloved, my only one, and he will be in my heart for all eternity.”
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And in the back of his mind, an ancient conscience whispered that whoever she was, she already belonged to him.
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Nikolai, tall and athletic, with sandy hair, strikingly angular features, and piercing ice-blue eyes a shade colder than the winter of his Siberian homeland. The youngest of the group by far, Niko had come of age during the height of the humans’ so-called Cold War. A gearhead right out of the cradle, he was a high-octane thrill-seeker and the Breed’s first line of defense when it came to things like guns, gadgets, and everything in between.
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They had their own personal demons as well, though none of them were the touchy-feely types looking to have Dr. Phil crawl up their ass with a flashlight.
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Tegan had always preferred to hunt alone, but his secretive nature was beginning to wear on the others. He was a wild card,
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“All this touchy feely is making me itchy to kill something. How about we quit jerking each other off and go blow the roof off this mutha?”
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dermaglyphs, naturally occurring marks inherited from the Breeds’ forebears, whose hairless skin had been covered in the changeable, camouflaging pigments. Glyphs typically were a source of pride for the Breed, unique indications of lineage and social rank. Gen Ones like Lucan bore the marks in greater numbers and deeper saturation.
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Malebranche, he called the arced blades, a reference to demons inhabiting one of the nine levels of hell, though sometimes Dante wryly adopted the word as a surname for himself when he was out among humankind.
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Setting & Locations edit
- Boston
- Chinatown
- The Order Compound: The Order's HQ; 300 ft. below an estate mansion in Boston
First Sentence edit
Her baby wouldn't stop crying.
Table of Contents edit
Prologue
Chapter 1 - 34
Glossary edit
- Breedmate: A human female, gifted with unique blood and DNA properties, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Series & Lists edit
This is book 1 of 12 in The Midnight Breed. (standard series)
Followed by Kiss of Crimson.
This is book 1 of 12 in The Midnight Breed: Reading Order. (standard series)
Followed by Kiss of Crimson.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Lara Adrian (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Random House Publishing
Country: United States
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-553-58937-5
Page Count: 432
Publisher: Random House Publishing
Country: United States
Publication Date: May 1, 2007
ISBN: 978-0-553-58937-5
Page Count: 432
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: CPB Box no. 2525 vol. 1
- Dewey: 813
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- Lara Adrian: author's website
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