in alphabetical order

Aidan Savage – One of the “Golden Twins”. Sent to America to rid that land of vampires, he lives in San Francisco with his loyal servants, Stefan and Marie. When he first meets his lifemate, she has been turned from human to vampiress by a vampire. Aidan transfuses her with his own blood, there-by completing her Carpathian conversion.

Alexandria Houton – A fair-haired, pale, artist who works for a video game designer, she drew a vampire to her. She has a special gift for sensing evil events. He in turn attacked her and forced her to take his blood. Saved by Aidan, she becomes his lifemate. She has a much younger brother, Joshua.

Antoinetta Nicoletta Scarletti – Lifemate to Byron Justicano, she is an heiress to the Scarletti Shipping industry. She runs the Palazzo Della Morte. She was blinded in an accident, an explosion, which killed her parents, and is also a concert pianist. Various times throughout the book, she is shown to have special powers, which we learn are from her lineage as a member of the Jaguar Race. Once converted, she begins to regain some vision, though it is simple enhancements of her Jaguar tendencies, she sees thermal images, much like a Jaguar does.

Barack – A quiet, moody, often possessive Carpathian who is a member of the Dark Troubadours – run by Darius and Desari. His self-appointed task is the protection of Syndil after her attack. He and Syndil become lifemates in Dark Fire. Provides blood and creates a blood-bond with Cullen when he’s injured in Dark Melody.

Byron Justicano – Eleanor’s brother, a calm amicable individual, he is very close friends with Jacques. When Jacques is captured and tortured, he is the first to realize that his friend is still alive. He is captured and tortured the same way as Jacques. By the end of Dark Desire, his status is uncertain. First mentioned in Dark Prince and then again in Dark Desire, he is Jacques’ friend. He was abducted in Dark Desire and tortured before Jacques, Gregori and Mikhail rescued him. He has his own story in Dark Symphony. He is a gem-caller by trade, however has dedicated his life to serving his people as a hunter. His lifemate Antoinetta Scarletti is a descendant of the family, which was described in Christine’s gothic title, The Scarletti Curse.

Corinne Wentworth – Lifemate to Dayan, she was married to John Wentworth. He was lured to the Morrison Center for Psychic Research and was eventually killed. She is pregnant with his child. Known also as CJ Wentworth, she is a musical composer of some renown. She also has a heart condition, which threatens her life. She is particularly psychic in that she is telekinetic. Her late husband, John, was a precognitive.

Darius Daratrazanoff – Brother to Desari and Gregori, he is the acknowledged leader of this particular “lost” group of Carpathians. Talented in Healing and Hunting, as well as Leadership, he is an eclectic individual, merging personalities of Mikhail and Gregori into one individual. He is the group coordinator for their band. Close to the end of his tortured existence, he meets Tempest, his lifemate. He first chooses to ‘sleep the sleep of humans’ and grow old with Tempest, but she leaves him little choice when he is mortally wounded. She supplies him with blood, to a near-fatal amount and he is forced to convert her.

Dayan – Another bandmate in the Dark Troubadours, he is focused and caring, he is also the second-in-command to Darius. He becomes friends with Cullen Tucker. When Darius, Barack, and Julian all claim their respective lifemates, he leaves the band to go to Canada with Cullen. To avoid the stress of seeing his bandmates who now have their light bringers. In Dark Melody we find him playing guitar at a bar in the Cascade Mountains.

Desari Daratrazanoff – The first full Carpathian, a dark Ancient Female that we meet. Her passion and trade are singing. She is complete in her own power. Her brother Darius and she are found to be the long lost brother and sister to Gregori. As an Ancient, she matches wits and skills one-to-one with Julian. She is a member of a band called the Dark Troubadours, whose members include: Darius, Barack, Dayan, Syndil, and at one time a Carpathian named Savon, who later turned vampire and attacked Syndil, and was subsequently killed by Darius. Her voice is her talent and she utilizes it more than once to affect a particular desired result.

Destiny – Taken by a vampire as a child, subjected to tortures and pain beyond what any mere mortal could stand, she uses a psychic connection with a Carpathian to learn how to fight, to protect herself, and to overcome what the vampire had wrought. She has made herself protector of a section of Seattle, protector of women. She is our first female Vampire Hunter. She has avoided direct communication with her savior; unknowingly he is her lifemate, Nicolae von Shrieder. He was the one who trained her to kill her captor and to kill the vampire. She also has been supportive of a women’s shelter.

Falcon – A hunter sent to Italy by Vladimir Dubrinsky, Mikhail’s father. He returns to the Carpathian Mountains to pay honor to his Prince before seeking the dawn. He meets his lifemate, Sara Marten, along the way, and seven psychic children – three girls and four boys - and the way of his life is altered forever. He pledges his allegiance to Mikhail and takes on an attack meant to kill Mikhail Dubrinsky. Knowing the cost to himself, he nevertheless chooses to make the sacrifice.

Francesca del Ponce – She is a powerful Ancient. She has quite a bit of power and strength. She is a healer of some renown, based out of Paris, France. She is called upon to heal terminally ill patients. She also is called upon to heal an abused child, Skyler, whom she discovers to have psychic ability. When Skyler’s abusive father dies, Francesca and Gabriel adopt Skyler. We learn later that Francesca and Gabriel have a daughter of their own, Tamara. Francesca links to a previous title, Dark Gold, in that she creates Stained-Glass Windows, some of which are in Aidan’s house in San Francisco. She also creates a healing quilt for Corinne, in Dark Melody.

Gabriel Daratrazanoff – One of the “Dark Twins”, who, like his brother, is considered to be one of the oldest Carpathians still possibly alive. However their legendary status precludes the direct knowledge of their whereabouts. It is said that they are at least 2000 years old. It is also rumored that Lucian turned vampire and Gabriel was forced to destroy him. Gabriel’s story is told in Dark Legend. We pick up his story from the point that the place he chose to lock both himself and his twin in the ground is being disturbed by moving equipment. He meets his lifemate, not realizing she is his. It is not until he realizes he’s feeling guilt at what he expects to do to her that he begins to question his situation.

Gregori Daratrazanoff – “The Dark One”, the most feared of all Carpathians, his age is second only to that of Mikhail. As the greatest healer of the Carpathian race, his path to knowledge also one of the most tortured. His lifemate, Savannah Dubrinsky, is the first of a new generation of Carpathian children. Brother to Darius, Desari, Gabriel, and Lucian. He and Savannah arrive to help heal Corinne in Dark Melody. A call is put out and he also arrives in Seattle, to assist in removing the taint of the vampire from Destiny’s body.

Jacques Dubrinsky – He is a younger brother to Mikhail. When we first encounter him his is fun loving and carefree, Eventually he is captured, tortured and buried alive for seven years. His mind severely damaged when he meets his lifemate, he is more animal than man.

Jaxon Montgomery – Lifemate to Lucian, she is a troubled woman with a tortured past. Her father, a Navy Seal, was killed and her mother remarried another Navy Seal, Tyler Drake. Tyler trains Jaxon in the techniques of the Seals, though she can never join the group. Jaxon “witnesses” the murder of both her mother and little brother as well as the murders of her subsequent adoptive family. She becomes a police officer and we meet her as she is attempting to conduct a police operation. She becomes the first heroine we meet to actually fight vampires in her own right, alongside her lifemate. Dark Guardian is her book and is highly action oriented. Her own particular psychic talent is the ability to feel evil, before she actually witnesses the scene.

Joie Sanders – A security expert, first mentioned in Dark Symphony. She is called upon to provide security for Antoinetta and her family. She is also very talented in Astral Projection, as well as her entire family is telepathic. Her own story begins when she is assigned to protect a visiting United States Senator as he visits Austria. She comes from a very happy family life; her parents and her siblings are very close. She has a brother, Jubal, and a sister, Gabrielle. She’s a tomboyish type, enjoying high-risk sports and adventurous experiences. She comes upon the experience of her life, as we see her exploring a cave in the Carpathian Mountains.

Julian Savage – The second of the “Golden Twins”, he is the brother to Aidan. His path in life has been fraught with pain. Touched by a vampire when he was 12, and forced to take the vampire’s blood, he has lived separate from his people for centuries fearing the harm he would bring to them, marked as he is with darkness. He is one of the ‘Hunters without equal’, his knowledge approaching that of Gregori. He meets his lifemate when he is asked to warn her that she is a target of assassination.

Lucian Daratrazanoff - One of the “Dark Twins”, who, like his brother, is considered to be one of the oldest Carpathians still possibly alive. However their legendary status precludes the direct knowledge of their whereabouts. It is said that they are at least 2000 years old. It is also rumored that Lucian turned vampire and Gabriel was forced to destroy him. In Dark Legend, he links minds with Skyler and comforts her at times. Lucian’s story is Dark Guardian, and after review of his history, we pick up his tale from the moment he forced his twin to mortally attack him. He is encouraged by Francesca to hold on, that he did have a lifemate and that she was very young and in tremendous pain, but that she did exist.

Nicolae Von Shrieder – An ancient Carpathian who was initially sent out by Prince Vladimir Dubrinsky to hunt and subdue the vampire. He and his brother had no hope of finding their own lifemates, being so far from their native soil, but when Destiny calls out in pain, she links minds with him. He teaches her his ancient ways of battle, no skills one of her age should ever know, but they save her life. She never speaks to him, thus saving his sanity, when he doesn’t realize she is his lifemate until she escapes and kills her captor, one who is bringing pain and degradation to her life. His brother is Vikirnoff.

Mikhail Dubrinsky, Carpathian Prince – Parents were Vladimir and Sarantha Dubrinsky. He is the oldest known Carpathian alive when we first meet him. His lifemate is Raven Whitney.

Raven Whitney – Human Female, long bodied and dark in complexion, on vacation in the Carpathian Mountains. She is a police psychic who uses her psychic talents to probe into murders and serial killers minds. Her conversion to Carpathian is largely involuntary.

Sara Marten – Falcon’s lifemate, they meet on his journey to pay respects to Mikhail Dubrinsky before choosing the dawn. She is the child of two archaeologists who were killed when she was but 15 years old. They happened to be killed by a vampire who then stalks her for 15 more years, but she always manages to escape him. The vampire wants her to help him find the tomb of the Master Wizard as well as the Book of Knowledge. Moving from place to place, from her home in North America to the small villages in Romania, she comes upon seven psychic children. Three girls and four boys come under her protection.

Savannah Dubrinsky – A magician by trade, lithe, dark and sultry, she takes five years beyond her 18th birthday, attempting to avoid her destiny as the lifemate of Gregori. She fears him, his power, his very being. But she was conceived especially for him. Though a fledgling, she is the first full Carpathian lead heroine we meet. Her parents are Mikhail and Raven Dubrinsky. Arrives to heal Destiny and Nicolae in Dark Destiny.

Shea O’Halloran – Jacques lifemate. She is redheaded and possesses Green eyes. Her conversion is also largely involuntary. She is the product of an incomplete mating bond between her mother Maggie O’Halloran and Rand, a Carpathian who eventually turns vampire. Shea is ½ Irish and a Scientific Researcher/Doctor. She is pregnant by Dark Melody when she and Jacques arrive to help in the healing of Corinne.

Syndil – The second female band member, she is brutally attacked by Savon, a friend turned vampire. She can hear the earth and heal it with her well-developed Carpathian power. She is an Ancient in her own right. Her lifemate is Barack. She heals Cullen in Dark Melody, when he was injured protecting Lisa Wentworth and Corinne.

Tempest Trine – A flame-haired beauty, she is a mechanic by trade. She responds to an ad for a Mechanic, placed by Desari in hopes that she would be able to travel with their singing group and look after the tour bus. Desari mentions that her brain patterns don’t match typical human brain patterns, and once Darius interacts with her, he experiences that flash of color and emotion and desire that only his lifemate could inspire in him. Though she doesn’t understand it yet, and certainly with the lack of formal Carpathian education Darius cannot understand the signs, they are destined to mate. He claims her as his lifemate, though vows not to convert her. She attempts to persuade him to, at least once, and finally leaves him no choice in the matter. She is particularly adept at interacting with animals.

Traian Trigovise – An ancient, one sent out by Prince Vladimir Dubrinsky, he is traveling home to pay homage to his new prince when he comes upon an interesting group of vampires searching desperately in a cave, trying to find something very critical. He is attacked by a Master Vampire and captured, used as food for other vampires until Joie comes upon his prison, deep within a cave. Recognizing Joie as his lifemate, he accepts her siblings under his protection.

Vladimir and Sarantha Dubrinsky – The original mated pair, prince and lifemate of the Carpathian peoples. They are mentioned or have a presence in nearly all of the books. They are parents to Mikhail, Jacques, Noelle, and one other Dubrinsky brother whom Mikhail was forced to sentence to death. Their right-hand assistants are the Daratrazanoff family, of which we find Gabriel, Lucian, Gregori, Darius, and Desari.