Rand: Noelle's husband-but not her true lifemate, a little'off'
“You're looking at me like a cat in the creamery. Why is that?”
“Tell me, do you often gallivant about town on bicycles?”
“Do you blame me? Christine is my child. When she was born, I had such dreams for her. I had great aspirations to how she would be raised, and you'll excuse me for saying so, but I never did imagine her as a shopkeeper's child.”
“Miss Hathaway, I've thought long and hard about making you this offer. It's the best possible solution. Will you be my wife?”
“Can you for once in your goddamned life let someone else be in charge?”
“You're going to make me say it, aren't you? You're my first love, Lucy. I had no idea what love was until I found you. You're my life, my world, my...everything. The reason the sun rises and the moon shines, the reason spring comes and flowers bloom. You know you are. Who the hell would inspire me to poetry like this?”
Rand: Shea's absent father. A Carpathian male, although married to Noelle Dubrinsky, is lifemate to a human psychic named Maggie, with whom he had an affair. He did not know Maggie was pregnant, and was sent to ground for many years after his wife Noelle was killed; upon awakening learned of Maggie's death; turned vampire.
Rand: Shield bearer of Lockhaven in charge of its defense.
Rand: Karen's twelve-year-old brother, able to manipulate his own gravity
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