JAMES RASMUSSEN

Age ~ 17 (page 27)
Hair ~ silky light brown, wavy,
Eyes ~ thoughtful, enigmatic gray, alternately intense and cool; silver in vamp mode; heavily lashed, like his mother's
Height ~ tallish
Family ~ dad Jasper (a psychologist, Ph.D); mom Madder (interior decorator)
Soulmate ~ Poppy North
Misc ~ "subtle intelligent face", "clean carven profile", "outlaw good looks"

- manager of apartment building that his parents own; lives there
- likes trance music
- doesn't like ambient music; calls it "New Age mush"
- only lets Poppy call him "Jamie"
- "seen too much of the world to have any illusions"
- drives an Integra
- has a "consummate cool"
- thinks Poppy is "precious, to be protected at all costs"
- born in San Francisco
- doesn't like being a vampire; thinks it's "unnatural and evil"
- practical
- "lithe-muscled" (Poppy)
- "he was the smell of winter rain and the sound of his predator's heartbeat" (Poppy)
- has a "silvery aura of power . . . His mind, lean and tiger-tough but somehow gentle and almost wistful" (Poppy)
- " 'a little soft on vermin . . . Got these radical permissive ideas about humans having free will' " (Ash)
- " 'so noble and lovestruck' " (Ash)
- wears a Black Iris watch; in the club as well
- "He wasn't a child anymore. In the last week he'd been through the crucible. He'd faced death and found love. He was an adult. And filled with a quiet fury that would destroy everything in its path. Everything necessary to get to Poppy." (himself)
- "when he smiled, it was impossible not to smile back." (Hannah)

James Rasmussen, written by... Poppy