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A tough-as-nails Homicide detective from the Throne World capital city police, Lt. Haines first appears in book 3 as Sten's assigned partner into the investigation of a terrorist bombing with possible political inclinations. Although they form a strong bond both professionally and personally, ultimately she is unable to reconcile her law-abiding nature with Sten's profession as a black-ops specialist, and they separate. Years later she reappears as an old friend, happily married to someone else, and willing to work with Sten on the biggest homicide investigation of them all -- the (temporary) assassination of the Eternal Emperor at the end of book 5. In book 8, events force her to rejoin Sten's life, as well as his rebellion.

* [[Action Girl]]: Not quite to Cind's extent, but still one of the toughest cops in a ''very'' tough city, and perfectly willing to do things like take point on SWAT team entries into buildings full of terrorists.

* [[By-The-Book Cop]]: In comparision to Sten's [[Cowboy Cop]], at least. Haines understands when (slightly) bending the rules is necessary to do her job, because no rulebook is perfect, but she will ''never'' break them. Her brief forays into intelligence and spook work (both with Sten, and when the police department is drafted into counter-intelligence work during the Tahn War) both leave her with a foul taste in her mouth, and she can't wait to get back to busting ordinary decent criminals.

* [[Crazy Prepared]]: The aforementioned black ops team's demise is largely because Chief of Detectives Haines has enough enemies that she feels it necessary to rig her house with booby traps, sleep with an AM2 pistol under her pillow, and stock anti-grav parachutes in her broom cupboard just in case she needs to make an emergency exit from her (floating) house via HALO jump.