Mary-Lynnette Carter

Living in Briar Creek, Oregon, with her father, stepmother, and younger brother Mark, Mary-Lynnette is a seventeen-year-old fascinated with astronomy – she knows everything there is to know about stars – and has aspirations of becoming a scientist.

Described as having a healthy tan, dark brown hair, and eyes as blue as jeans, Mary-Lynnette considers herself a night person. This view changes dramatically when Mary-Lynnette gets caught up with Ash Redfern and his sisters – all vampires – when Mary-Lynnette’s neighbour, Opal Burdock, is murdered in Daughters of Darkness.

During the quest to find Mrs. Burdock’s killer, Mary-Lynnette finds out the Night World exists. She is even more surprised when she discovers her childhood friend, Jeremy Lovett, is a werewolf ! But what rocks Mary-Lynnette to the core is discovering Ash is her soulmate and Jeremy – the only boy Mary-Lynnette had a romantic interest in – is behind the killings that have occurred in Briar Creek.

At first, Mary-Lynnette denies she feels anything for Ash and he does the same. But eventually, both come to accept they are soulmates.

At the end of the book, Mary-Lynnette convinces Ash to give their relationship time. She asks him to really think about what it means for him to have a human soulmate. Secretly though, Mary-Lynnette hopes that Ash will come back for her one day after she has finished growing up.