Richard Plantagenet

King Richard III, 33 years old…or 546, depending on your point of view. An unhappy man with a serious need to keep his mind…and his body…occupied.

Adrian Talbot

Actor, Professor, utterly self-absorbed Brat Prince, and…oh, yes…400-year-old Vampire. Adrian is beautiful, brilliant, fascinating and irritating as all hell.

Jake Fowler

Anthropologist for the Royal Ontario Museum. Ordinary guy. Well…there is that little bit of Adrian’s blood he accidentally swallowed…

Liliana Angeli

Lovely lady who reinvents the term "Dream Girl." Liliana is of the strange group of people called the Awakened, who lurk at a place called The Refuge in the Blue Ridge Mountains and possess powers they prosaically insist are not at all magical. Uh...sure.

Ed Perry

Mercenary for hire, ex-CIA field agent burned out on the Afghan frontier, seriously re-thinking his chosen occupation as he leads the strangest bunch of oddballs he’s ever seen into the wilds of the remote Middle-Eastern mountains.

Alexis Colby

Elegant, sophisticated, witty oil baroness with a taste for adventure and a bit of a mom complex…oh…and a ghost.

Will Scrope

Landless knight who died 900 years ago…but it took a Saracen army to do it. Serene, gentle giant, utterly devoted to King Richard. You do not want to make him mad.

Shahid Khan

Cheerful cutthroat and smuggler, who has been moving illicit goods across three borders for many years, but none as peculiar as what he’s smuggling this time.

Ardeshir

Gentleman, scholar, leader of his people…the Black Baluchis, and headman of their village, Sa’idi.

Lafeeta

Black Baluchi young lady with a taste for big Canadian ex-football players and a secret longing to increase her standing in Sa’idi by a time-honored method.

Assieh, Souri & Mahasti

Ancient, tiny, absolutely identical triplets who keep the oral history of the Black Baluchis, and do a bit of palm-reading on the side.

Ayatollah Zanjani

The local Big Bad Guy, ruling with an iron fist his province in far eastern Iran from his opulent palace in the city of Saravan, spreading terror with his vampiric "enforcers," and generally making himself rather thoroughly disliked by one and all.

T’beth

The Object of the exercise. Adrian Talbot’s "sister" who has made the dreadful mistake of returning to her native soil at just about the worst possible time and now finds herself badly in need of rescue.

Bahram Bakhtiar

Finally…a Bad Guy Vampire. Head of Zanjani’s "enforcers," who are the fledgling vampires he has created.

Shapour

Leader of the Sa’idi vampires who would not play ball with Bahram and Zanjani, and a man who knows a good piece of actor when he sees one.

Dinah MacNeil

Liliana’s friend, who finally calls for help when Lily can’t seem to help herself. The daughter of Awakened parents, who shares none of their powers.

Stephen

Leader of the Awakened at The Refuge and, theoretically, Liliana’s boss…which has never made her obey him yet. Stephen has his own agenda in trying to help Lily.

Donalore

Stephen’s mate and Liliana’s oldest friend. A Healer among the Awakened, and a lady with strong opinions she’s not terribly diplomatic about voicing.

Liam

A gentle and warm-hearted man, a priest, and a Finder among the Awakened, who can locate an individual by following his "essence" from his last location.

Mac

At Dinah’s Place, the handyman-who-is-not-what-he-seems. But he makes excellent coffee.

Also Starring

Assorted supporting cast members.