James Herondale longs for a great love, and thinks he has found it in the beautiful, mysterious Grace Blackthorn.

and so does a remorseless and inescapable plague. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London. James and Lucie Herondale, children of the famous Will and Tessa, have grown up in an idyll with their loving friends and family, listening to stories of good defeating evil and love conquering all. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. Welcome to Edwardian London, a time of electric lights and long shadows, the celebration of artistic beauty and the wild pursuit of pleasure, with demons waiting in the dark. Trapped in the city, Cordelia and her friends discover that their own connection to a dark legacy has gifted them with incredible powers-and force a brutal choice that will reveal the true cruel price of being a hero. These monsters are nothing like those Shadowhunters have fought before-these demons walk in daylight, strike down the unwary with incurable poison, and seem impossible to kill. All the while, she must hide her secret love for James, who is sworn to marry someone else.īut Cordelia's new life is blown apart when a shocking series of demon attacks devastate London. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians. Cordelia's mother wants to marry her off, but Cordelia is determined to be a hero rather than a bride. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to Edwardian London in hopes of preventing the family's ruin.

Evil hides in plain sight and the only thing more dangerous than fighting demons is falling in love.Ĭordelia Carstairs is a Shadowhunter, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons.

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