The Midnight Breed Series Companion by Adrian Lara

belonged for many reasons.
    I said no, and I figured that was the end of the ebook original conversation. But Random House really wanted me to write something to fill that void, so I started thinking about secondary characters and storylines that could exist if not within the overarching plot already in progress, then running parallel to it.
    My first choice was Danika. And since the ebook novella would be coming out in early December, I decided to write a holiday story and set it somewhere other than where the series had been so far. Naturally, that sent my imagination to Conlan MacConn’s homeland of Scotland. Edinburgh, to be specific.
    In A Taste of Midnight , I wanted to craft a story that I hoped would respect the relationship Danika and Conlan enjoyed while he was alive, yet introduce a passion that readers could believe in, especially considering the short storytelling timeframe a novella dictates. Danika had to fall in love fast and deeply, so I decided to give her Malcolm MacBain, a Breed male she and Con both knew very well, a very long time ago. Both Danika and Mal had lost people they loved, so giving them a happily-ever-after together seemed fitting to me.
    In A Taste of Midnight , we also meet a new and intriguing Breed male from the Enforcement Agency named Thane. Although I don’t have a storyline in mind for this black-haired, ruggedly handsome and mysterious man, I have a feeling we haven’t seen the last of him.
    A Taste of Midnight released in ebook December, 2011. It is the only Midnight Breed story not available in print on its own in the United States. Readers can only find this story in ebook, and in the back of the mass market paperback of Darker After Midnight . Danika and Malcolm’s story is available as a standalone in Germany through Egmont LYX in both paperback and ebook.
     

 
     
     
    Darker After Midnight
     
    BOOK 10
     
     
    Romantic Leads
    Sterling Chase
    Tavia Fairchild
     
    Plot Summary
    Separated from his brethren of the Order and struggling with an addiction that threatens to consume him, Sterling Chase has fallen far from grace—but he soon finds his best hope for redemption in beautiful, mysterious Tavia Fairchild, a woman unlike any other the world has ever seen.
     
    Primary Story Locations
    Order's compound headquarters in undisclosed location in Boston
    Lazaro Archer's Darkhaven in northern Maine
    Dragos's island lair off coast of Maine
    Various locations in and around Washington, D.C.
     
    Playlist
    Down with the Sickness by Disturbed
    One Last Breath by Creed
    Awakening by The Damning Well
    Bodies by Drowning Pool
    In Your Eyes by Peter Gabriel
     
     
    Story Background
     
    After plotting out the bones of this story, the tenth of the series, back around the time I was writing Midnight Rising , when I finally approached the first chapter of Darker After Midnight it was with a mix of excitement, pride, trepidation, and even a bit of sadness.
    As Lucan, Gideon and Tegan—the Order’s longest-standing members of the cadre based in Boston—began to detonate the explosives that would seal the compound forever, I was right there with them, knowing it had to be done, yet not really sure what the future would hold for the Order and their world once this chapter closed.
    I knew the series would continue because I had just signed with Random House for the next two books, but I didn’t know if readers would be interested in a new generation of characters and a twenty-year leap into the future where the Breed no longer hid from mankind, but was struggling to find a place of peace among them. Nevertheless, the first arc of the Midnight Breed series was drawing to a close right here and now, and I had a lot of threads to finish off in Darker After Midnight .
    Chief among them was the resolution of Sterling Chase’s fall from grace and his ultimate redemption and healing. Things with Chase had gone from bad to worse as his story opened here. Through his bad attitude and reckless