Six years later, in 1903, James Herondale and his friends, his parabatai Matthew Fairchild (son of Charlotte Fairchild and Henry Branwell), Thomas Lightwood (son of Gideon Lightwood and Sophia 'Sophie' Collins), and Christopher Lightwood (son of Gabriel Lightwood and Cecily Herondale), find a Deumas demon while patrolling. She gets lost but finds her way back with the help of a mysterious young boy, who she initially believes is a faerie changeling. In 1897, in Idris, ten-year-old Lucie Herondale, daughter of Shadowhunter William 'Will' Herondale, and half warlock/half Shadowhunter Theresa 'Tessa' Gray, sneaks into Brocelind Forest. However, several flashbacks (known as 'Days Past') are scattered between the official chapters.

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Please help improve it by removing unnecessary details and making it more concise. Originally designed as a five-book series the sequence so far includes The Iron Trial, The Copper Gauntlet and The Bronze Key with The Silver Mask due for publication in October 2017.This article's plot summary may be too long or excessively detailed. She has announced that she will conclude the overarching series with two further trilogies: The Last Hours and The Wicked Powers.Īdditionally, Cassandra Clare has teamed up with fellow fantasy author Holly Black to write the Magesterium Series set in an underground school where mages train apprentices to control the elements. Clare followed this up with The Infernal Devices series (a prequel trilogy set in Victorian England: Clockwork Angel, Clockwork Prince and Clockwork Princess) and The Dark Artifices Trilogy which includes Lady Midnight and Lord of Shadows.Ĭlare has added to the series with various standalone novels and short stories, expanding the world of the Shadowhunters: The Bane Chronicles and Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy. The book series include the original six-volume Mortal Instruments series (In reading order: City of Bones, City of Ashes, City of Glass, City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls and City of Heavenly Fire). The series tells the story of characters wrapped up in the world of the Shadowhunters (or Nephalim), half-angels who guard the world from demons on behalf of the Angel Raziel.Ĭassandra Clare’s extraordinary world now encompasses three novel series, two short-story collections and four graphic novels as well as having inspired both a film and a popular television series. Born to American parents in Tehran, much of Cassandra’s Clare’s early life was spent travelling the world, experiences which later inspired her vivid and absorbing fantasy writing.Ĭlare wrote her first novel, City of Bones, in 2004 the book went on to become the first in the phenomenally successful Mortal Instruments series.

Chain of Gold by Cassandra Clare