A Taste of Midnight (2011) (edit title/settings)

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• Danika (Dani) MacConn: Conlan's widowed Breedmate; Connor's mother; Is 5'11" with long blonde hair and dusky blue eyes; Has ability to read thoughts; Is originally from Denmark; Has a teardrop-and-crescent-moon birthmark on her abdomen
• Malcolm MacBain: "Mal" - "Brannoc" - "Bran" - Breed male; Is working for Reiver; Speaks with a rolling Scotts burr; Is a towering wall of muscle with broad shoulders; Has thick, overlong chestnut-brown hair and gunmetal gray eyes; Has a savage knife scar down one beard-grizzled cheek; Was Conlan's best friend
• Connor MacConn: Breed male; Danika & Conlan's infant son
• Conlan (Con) MacConn: Breed warrior of the Order; Killed in a mission gone wrong; Danika's mate; Connor's father
• Fiona MacBain: Breedmate; 22 years old
• Emma: A petite redhead; James' Breedmate; In her 20's
• James: Breed male; One of Conlan's distant cousins; Has dark eyes
• Gideon: British-born Breed Warrior of the Order; Savannah's mate; Resident Genius; Runs the command center in the Order's compound; Has cropped blond hair and blue eyes; Wears rimless shades with pale blue lenses
• Dante: Breed Warrior; Tess' mate; New father; Chase's closest friend; Has dark hair
• Tess Culver: Dante's Breedmate; New mother; Has the ability to heal with just a touch; Was a veterinarian; Has blonde hair and aqua eyes
• Sterling (Harvard) Chase: 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
• Andreas Reichen: Breed male from Berlin; Claire's mate; A trusted ally of the Order
• 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
• Mathias Rowan: Enforcement Agency director for the Boston region; Chase's friend
• Reiver: Breed male; Has black hair and slate-gray eyes; Edinburgh's most feared crime boss; Has been around since the 1700's
• 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.
• Thane: Breed male; One of Reiver's personal security detail; Is built like a tank, tall and immense with massive shoulders and arms; Has shoulder-length black hair with a sharp widow's peak and green eyes
• Kerr: One of Reiver's most brutal henchmen
• Packard: One of Reiver's most brutal henchmen

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• Scottish Highlands
• Edinburgh
• Denmark
• Boston, Massachusetts
• The Order Compound: The Order's HQ; 30 stories below an estate in Boston

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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.

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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.
• Darkhaven: An estate where several Breed families live together in a community
• IID: The information database that logs nearly every known Breed individual in existence.
• 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.
• 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 Deeper Than Midnight, and followed by Darker After Midnight.

Preceded by Deeper Than Midnight, and followed by Darker After Midnight.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Lara Adrian (Author)

Other Contributors:

1. Ian Hooton (Cover Artist)

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• Dewey: 813

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Sexual and graphic content

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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