Phineas McKinney

Overview
Phineas McKinney is a vampire, formerly of the Russian coven. He is the hero in Wanted: Undead or Alive. Phineas is currently the boyfriend of Brynley Jones.

Early Life
Phineas was transofrmed only very recently. He still has a family, which includes only his younger brother, his sister and his aunt. His aunt can't work because she has bad diabetes, so Phineas has to support all three of them, turning to drug trafficking for help. he has no parents because his mother died of AIDS and his father ran away when they were young. Apparently, his brothers call him Master Phin but he now, he prefers to be called Dr. Phang. He had a bad record and has never had a real job until Angus offers him one as a guard. He allows him to send some money to his family as long as he doesn't tell them what he had become and what kind of work he was doing, which is a far cry from during his stay with the Russians, whom had denied his seeing them.

Phineas was transformed by Alek, one of the vampires of the Russian coven run by Katya. He was transformed while he was running his drug trafficking business. Alek turned him for an easy source of drugs which was used to make Nightshade later on. However, despite living with the Russian coven, he hates having to go out every night to attack people for their blood. He's totally against killing.

Be Still My Vampire Heart
Emma Wallace and Angus MacKay first found Phineas at Central Park, where he was out feeding with Alek. During their first enounter, Phineas took immediately to Blissky, a fushion of Whisky and Blood, and emptied Angus's flask completely. Phineas had only been changed a week before. He admitted that he had a bad record before he was turned into a vampire, but Angus saw kindness in him. Considering he had nowhere to go, Angus decided to hire him for MacKay Security and Investigation.

On his first assignment, which was to guard Emma, Phineas screwed up big time when she along with Angus (who had come to bring her back to her house) ended up being kidnapped by Alek. Despite this mess, Phineas managed to make it up to them during his second task, which was to bug Katya's office and to learn the whereabouts of the couple.

Physical appearance
Phineas is black, with messy dark hair. He usually wears the standard uniform of the non-highlander guards, which is khaki pants, navy Polo shirt, and a navy windbreaker with the words MACKAY SECURITY AND INVESTIGATION embossed in small letter on the upper hand.

Personality
Phineas still acts like a teenager from the way he talks, especially the way he acts around girls, which can be seen when he denied his duties to Emma to 'play' with Lindsey and Tina. He is easily excitable and eager to please. He is good at fencing being able to get into the field after only one lesson. He also likes hip-hop.

First appearance

 * Be Still My Vampire Heart (Love at Stake #3)