Lady Midnight

It's been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn't lead her in treacherous directions …Making things even more complicated, Julian's brother Mark – who was captured by the faeries five years ago – has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind – and they need the Shadowhunters' help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn't recognise his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare's newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series.

'Positively aquiver with secret ardor and murderous zeal.' -- Kirkus Reviews
'Clare's well-developed protagonists ..., pell-mell action sequences, complicated family dynamics, and fascinating magic system continue to engage.' -- Publishers Weekly
'Fresh and ... wonderfully told.' -- Booklist

Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times, USA TODAY, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly bestselling Shadowhunter Chronicles. She is also the co-author of the bestselling fantasy series Magisterium with Holly Black. The Shadowhunter Chronicles have been adapted as both a major motion picture and a television series. Her books have more than fifty million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband and three fearsome cats. Morena Baccarin is a Brazilian-born Los Angeles-based actress who attended Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts and then The Juilliard School. She worked in theatre before moving on to film and TV, catching the attention of Joss Whedon who cast her in his short-lived cult sci-fi show Firefly. Since then, she is heard on The Flash as the voice of Gideon, in Gotham as Leslie Thompkins and in both Deadpool movies opposite Ryan Reynolds as Vanessa.

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