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• Teddy Brunswick: {The Gift} - "Theodore Brunswick" - Police chief in Port Henry; Was in the army as a young man; Has thick, gray hair and gray eyes; 64 years old; Has been half in love with Elvi since he was a boy
• Katricia Argeneau: {The Gift} - "Tricia" - Rogue hunter; A fresh-faced young blonde with a bright smile and soft blue eyes with silver flecks; Is athletic in build, with shoulders a little wider than her hips and a smaller bosom; Was born on December 25th 411 AD
• Marguerite Argeneau: {The Gift} - "Marguerite Notte" - Teddy's friend; Katricia's aunt; Matchmaker of the Argeneau family
• Samantha Willan: {The Gift} - "Sam" - Mortimer's life mate; Is still mortal; Alex & Jo's middle sister; A workaholic lawyer
• Garrett Mortimer: {The Gift} - Sam's life mate; Head of the North American Enforcers under Lucian; Bricker's ex-partner
• Josephine Willan: {The Gift} - "Jo" - Alex & Sam's younger sister; Nicholas' life mate
• Alexandra Willan: {The Gift} - "Alex" - Sam & Jo's older sister; Cale's life mate; Chef and restauranteur; Owner of La Bonne Vie; Has a brown bob that goes to just below her ears
• Decker Argeneau: {The Gift} - Katricia's cousin; Dani's life mate; Enforcer
• Alexandria Argeneau: {The Gift} - Katricia's grandmother; The family matriarch; Was the family matchmaker; Died more than two thousand years ago
• Lucian Argeneau: {The Gift} - Katricia's uncle; Leigh's life mate & husband; Head of the vampire council; Head of the Argeneau family; Often seen as rude, sadistic
• Ellen Black: {The Gift} - "Elvi" - "Ellen Argeneau" - Teddy's childhood friend; Victor's life mate; A curvy redhead
• Victor Argeneau: {The Gift} - Katricia's uncle; Elvi's life mate
• Mabel Benoit: {The Gift} - Teddy's childhood friend; DJ's life mate; Elvi's best friend
• DJ Benoit: {The Gift} - Mabel's life mate; Enforcer
• Bastien Argeneau: {The Gift} - Marguerite's son; Runs the family business
• Alessandro Cipriano: {The Gift} - Italian immortal; Leonora's life mate; Is olive-skinned with long, dark hair and bronzed brown eyes
• Justin Bricker: {The Gift} - Enforcer; Mortimer's ex-partner; Runs the enforcer house with Mortimer
• Anders: {The Gift} - Rogue hunter; Has dark skin, dark hair and glowing gold-black eyes
• Mary Martin: {The Gift} - A widow 1 or 2 years younger than Teddy; Wants Teddy to marry her
• Catherine Crawfield: {Home for the Holidays} - "Catherine Crawfield Russell" - "Cat" - "Kitten" (only by Bones) - "Red Reaper" - Half-breed turned full vampire; Bones' wife; Has red hair and medium gray eyes; Can only drink undead blood and then temporarily absorbs the donors special abilities; 29 years old
• Bones: {Home for the Holidays} - "Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell III" - Master Vampire; Cat's husband and super sexy vampire; Mencheres' co-ruler; Has short dark curls and dark brown eyes; 245 years old; Can hear others' thoughts and can fly; Was a male prostitute in England while still human; Bastard son of a prostitute from eighteenth-century London; Was made a vampire in 1790 in a New South Wales penal colony
• Fabian du Brac: {Home for the Holidays} - Ghost that Bones and Cat "adopted"; Elisabeth's boyfriend; Died at the age of 45; Has sideburns
• Elisabeth: {Home for the Holidays} - Ghost; Fabian's girlfriend; Has a Marilyn-Monroe-like figure and a beautiful face; Speaks with a German accent; Has brown hair with rich auburn highlights and deep blue eyes
• Spade: {Home for the Holidays} - "Baron Charles DeMortimer" - Master Vampire Bones' best friend; Denise's husband; Has shoulder-length black hair
• Denise MacGregor: {Home for the Holidays} - "Denise DeMortimer" - Demon shapeshifter; Cat's best friend; Spade's wife; Has dark brown hair and hazel eyes
• Ian: {Home for the Holidays} - Master Vampire; Bones' sire; Has auburn hair and turquoise eyes; Is an arrogant, obnoxious pervert
• Mencheres: {Home for the Holidays} - "Menkaure" - Mega-Master Vampire; Bones' co-ruler and grandsire; Kira's boyfriend; Has telekinetic powers and visions of the future; Over 4,000 year old former pharaoh; Looks like he's in his early 20's; Has black hair and charcoal eyes
• Kira Graceling: {Home for the Holidays} - Vampire; Mencheres' girlfriend; Has amber hair; Training to be an Enforcer; Former private investigator
• Annette: {Home for the Holidays} - Bones' former lover and a pain in Cat's ass; Knows Bones since both of them were human; The first vampire Bones ever made; Has strawberry-blond hair and champagne-colored eyes; Is still in love with Bones and probably always would be.
• Wraith: {Home for the Holidays} - "Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell III" - Vampire; Has shoulder-length blond hair, eyes the color of blueberries, chiseled cheekbones and finely sculpted features; Is at least 6'2"; Claims to be Bones' brother
• Penelope Ann Maynard: {Home for the Holidays} - "Penelope Ann Russell" - Bones' mother; A prostitute from eighteenth-century London; Daughter of Viscount Maynard
• Crispin Phillip Arthur Russell II: {Home for the Holidays} - "Duke of Rutland" - Bones & Wraith's father; Had corn-silk blond hair and lines around his mouth that looked too harsh to be caused by smiling; Had a very arrogant face
• Viscount Maynard: {Home for the Holidays} - Penelope Ann's father; Bones' grandfather
• Sheol: {Home for the Holidays} - Wraith's vampire sire
• Balchezek: {Home for the Holidays} - Demon; Has walnut hair and light brown eyes
• Justina Crawfield: {Home for the Holidays} - Vampire; Cat's mother; Was in training to be on the team of the Homeland Security special unit; Has dark hair and blue eyes
• Donald Williams: {Home for the Holidays} - "Don" - "Donald Bartholomew Williams" - Ghost; Cat's uncle and former boss; Former head of a covert branch of Homeland Security that guards the public against rogue supernatural creatures; Has gray-nearly white hair and gray eyes; Looks like your average middle-aged businessman
• Patra: {Home for the Holidays} - Mencheres' former wife; Deceased
• Hazael: {Home for the Holidays} - Demon
• Lucille: {Home for the Holidays} - Penelope's half-cousin and the madam of the bordello Bones' grew up in

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• Port Henry: {The Gift} - in Ontario Canada
• Toronto, Ontario Canada: {The Gift}
• New York, New York: {The Gift}
• Colorado: {The Gift}
• Los Angeles, California: {The Gift}
• Montreal, Quebec Canada: {The Gift}
• London, Ontario Canada: {The Gift}
• Atlantis: {The Gift} - An ancient isolated land that was more advanced scientifically than the rest of the world.
• Blue Ridge Mountains: {Home for the Holidays} - Location of Cat and Bones' cabin home
• London, England: {Home for the Holidays}
• New South Wales, Australia: {Home for the Holidays}
• Hampton Inn: {Home for the Holidays} - in Asheville
• Asheville, North Carolina: {Home for the Holidays}
• Jiffy Lube: {Home for the Holidays}
• Ocean Isle Beach, North Carolina: {Home for the Holidays}

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• Homeland Security: {Home for the Holidays}

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• Rogues: {The Gift} - Immortals who have broken one of their laws, usually older immortals who haven't found a life mate and have grown weary of living. They usually start to hurt mortals. They turn them in droves, or torture them, or do whatever will catch the council's notice quickly and force them to act.

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Preceded by The Reluctant Vampire, and followed by Under a Vampire Moon.

Preceded by One Grave at a Time, and followed by Once Burned.

Preceded by One Grave at a Time.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lynsay Sands (Author) - The Gift
2. Jeaniene Frost (Author) - Home for the Holidays

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Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PR9199.3.S2195 B58 2011
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Sexual Content

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Literature & Fiction
• Books › Romance › Vampires

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Lynsay Sands: Argeneau and Rogue Hunter series page
• Jeaniene Frost: Home page

Books with Additional Background Information edit see section history