Ashes of Midnight (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Claire Roth: Breedmate; Blood-bonded to Wilhelm Roth; Has the ability to enter peoples dreams
• Andreas Reichen: Breed Vampire whose Berlin Darkhaven was massacred by Wilhelm Roth and others. He is a trusted ally of the Order.
• Wilhelm Roth: Head of the Hamburg Darkhaven. Claire's Mate and Reichen's nemesis
• Dragos: Nemesis of the Breed; Grandson and keeper of the Ancient
• Tegan: Gen One Breed and Warrior of the Order. Elise's mate.
• Lucan Thorne: Gen One Breed and Leader of the Order. Gabrielle's mate
• Gabrielle Maxwell: Lucan's breedmate, she can detect vampire locations
• Renata: Nikolai's Breedmate, she has psychic abilities
• Dylan Alexander: Rio's Breedmate, she sees ghosts of Breedmates
• Rio: Breed Warrior; Dylan's mate
• Brock: Breed Vampire, Warrior of the Order
• Danika (Dani) MacConn: Breedmate of now deceased warrior Conlan
• Mira: Oracle, Young Breedmate, Cared For By Renata & Nikolai
• Gideon: Warrior of the Order; Tech geek
• Kade: Breed Vampire, Warrior of the Order
• Nikolai (Niko): Warrior of the Order, Renata's mate
• Hunter: Breed Vampire, Warrior of the Order
• Elise: Tegan's Breedmate; She hears the evil thougths of humans
• Dante: Warrior of the Order, Tess' mate
• Tess Culver: Dante's Breedmate who is a healer and is six-months pregnant
• The Ancient: One of the original 8 aliens who crash landed on Earth
• Sterling (Harvard) Chase: Warrior of the Order; Former Enforcement Agency agent; Elise's former brother-in-law
• Savannah: Gideon's Breedmate

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• “If you keep it up," she murmured, " we're going to be in here all night." He grunted, smiling as he continued to nuzzle her neck. "Not a half-bad idea. And you should know that keeping it up is never a problem when I'm around you.”

  Gabrielle and Lucan

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• “Your special titanium hollowpoints?” she murmured, then beamed up at him as if he’d given her a bouquet of prize-winning roses. Niko grinned, twin dimples framing his broad smile. “Nothing says I love you like custom-made rounds.”

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• wrapped her in his protective embrace, giving her a hundred solemn promises that he was very eager to keep, and loving her with all the reverence and worship of a blood-bonded male who had stared hell in the face and now understood that he was holding heaven in his arms.

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• “If you were mine,” he murmured low under his breath, “I would walk through the fires of hell itself to keep you away from a man like me.”

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• often get second chances, not in life or in love. If I had just one more minute with my Conlan, I wouldn’t waste a second of it on regret.

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• “You may think you’re keeping Claire out of harm’s way by shoving her aside right now, but the only one you’re protecting is yourself. If you go down, whether it’s the pyro or the Bloodlust that gets you, it’s going to kill that female, and you know it. You just want to make sure you’re not around to see it.”

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• Somehow, in the past year and a half, the compound had begun to feel less like a military stronghold and more like a home.

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• Love for his Breedmate, Elise, had transformed him somehow, made him stronger while at the same time it had smoothed away some of his roughest edges.

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• Her voice was quiet, but without the slightest falter. The velvet sound of it awakened scattered memories that shot through his mind in a barrage of images: He and this woman, naked in bed together, caught in a tangle of sheets, laughing, kissing. Her deep brown gaze dancing in golden candlelight as he fed her sugared raspberries on a midnight picnic by the lake. Her arms wrapped around his waist, her cheek resting against his bare chest as she confessed that she had fallen in love with him. Claire…

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• “Life is precious,” Danika continued. “And it is so very short, even for those like us. Four hundred and two years with Conlan wasn’t nearly enough time. We don’t often get second chances, not in life or in love. If I had just one more minute with my Conlan, I wouldn’t waste a second of it on regret. Let Andreas know how you truly feel.”

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• Shades of Midnight BY LARA ADRIAN Coming from Dell in January 2010

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Boston, Massachusetts
• The Order Compound: The Order's HQ; 300 ft. below an estate mansion in Boston
• Hamburg, Germany
• Newport
• Berlin, Germany
• Connecticut
• Montreal
• New England
• Denmark
• New York

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.
• Enforcement Agency: Organization responsible for enforcing vampire laws and hunting down Rogues.

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Glossary edit see section history

• Breedmates: Woman with a special sign that is the only one with the ability to bear children to a vampire

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by Veil of Midnight, and followed by Shades of Midnight.

Preceded by Veil of Midnight, and followed by Shades of Midnight.

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. 2525 vol. 1
• 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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