Character Occupation Formerly worked for Augustine in Chicago, but relocated and claimed positions of Rex of the St. Louis pride. Trying to be Anita's new Pomme de Sang.
Character Race Lycanthrope: Alpha Werelion
Character Status Living Lycanthrope
Character Associations and Ties Undefined ties to Augustine, Master Vampire of the city of Chicago Member of the Coalition for Better Understanding Between Human and Lycanthrope Communities Also tried out to be Anita's Pomme de Sang and has/will take over as Rex of the St. Louis Pride
Also seen in Danse Macabre, The Harlequin , mentioned in Skin Trade, mentioned in Flirt

Character Factoids Haven takes over the St. Louis pride in The Harlequin. He wishes for Anita to become his Regina. He thinks 'like a bad guy'. Haven was originally a part of Augustine's mafia group in Chicago. He has a long criminal record. He has several tattoos - of Bert and Ernie on his left shoulder; one of the Cookie Monster on the back of his shoulder right, and one of Oscar on his right hip. (DM) He could look pleasant and amused right up to the time he hurt you. He was a professional thug, and had been all his adult life. Haven took a Regina in St. Louis, and possibly married her, but is sleeping with Anita. The closeness of their ties is a bone of contention between Anita and the Regina, who goes unnamed. Anita doesn't believe she could take the Regina in a fair fight, and an unfair fight would bring the other lions down on her. (ST) This is directly contradicted later, when in ST Ch 54, Wicked remarks that if she wasn't squeamish, she would already have slept with Haven, and Anita doesn't correct him or contradict his assessment even in her thoughts. He will bend to Jean-Claude's will if he perceives a benefit. (ST)

Character Quotes

• In the paperback version of Danse Macabre, pg. 69-70
  

"He smelled so warm, so incredibly warm...I put my face so close to the warm, smooth line of his neck that a hard thought would have made my lips touch his skin....I laid the gentlest of kisses against that hot, smooth skin...."

• then on page 70

"the man at my feet wrapped himself tighter around me, not kneading me with his fingers now, but clinging. 'No,' Haven said, 'no, she's mine. MINE!'"

• in TH page 318

"I beat you last time," Joseph said. That was true.

"You got lucky," Haven said, and the voice was sliding down to something less pleasant.

• in TH page 320

"Remember the two lions you almost broke when you were here last time?"

"The college kids, yeah." [Haven]

.....His hand squeezed around mine, not hard, but firm. "Did you sleep with them?"

I started to ask why, but there was something about the way he was standing there, some quality of stillness that made me afraid to tease. I said the truth, "No."

"None of them," he said

"No, but if you're not sharing then you are holding the hand of the wrong girl."

"I know how many you got on your plate, but they aren't lions."

"And if I had slept with any of the other lions?"

• Then on page 321

He gave me a look; there was nothing comforting in that look, hell, there was nothing very human in that look. "I won't share with another lion."

• In TH page 319

"I'm trying to be good here," Haven said. "If you go all lioness on me, I can't promise to be good."

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