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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. For years there has been peace in the Shadowhunter world. 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. But everything changes when the Blackthorn and Carstairs families come to London, and so does a remorseless and inescapable plague.

The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past.

Clary n'en croit pas ses yeux. Elle vient de voir le plus beau garçon de la soirée commettre un meurtre. Et, détail terrifiant : le corps de la victime a disparu d'un seul coup ! Mais le pire reste à venir... Sa mère a été kidnappée par d'étranges créatures et l'appartement complètement dévasté. Sans le savoir, Clary a pénétré dans une guerre invisible entre d'antiques forces démoniaques et la société secrète des Chasseurs d'Ombres... Une guerre dans laquelle elle a un rôle fatal à jouer.

Le Monde Obscur est en émoi depuis le meurtre mystérieux d'un loup-garou survenu devant le Hunter's Moon, l'un des repaires de lycanthropes les plus fréquentés de New York. Du côté des Chasseurs d'Ombres, l'Inquisitrice, une femme insensible et austère, est dépêchée par l'Enclave pour s'emparer de l'Institut : Valentin est de retour et une guerre sanglante se prépare. Pris dans la tourmente des événements, écartelés entre cœur et raison, Clary et Jace se lancent à corps perdu dans un combat entre les forces du Bien et du Mal, qui les mènera des souterrains de la Cité Silencieuse aux eaux sombres de l'East River...

La lutte entre le bien et le mal se poursuit. Valentin rassemble son armée pour éradiquer la lignée des Chasseurs d'Ombres. Clary se rend dans la Cité de Verre afin de sauver sa mère et découvrir son passé. S'introduire dans la Cité sans l'autorisation de l'Enclave n'est pas sans danger... Au cours de sa quête, Clary rencontre Sébastien, un garçon énigmatique. Avec lui, elle comprend que le seul moyen d'arrêter la fureur de Valentin est de former une alliance entre Chasseurs d'Ombres et Créatures Obscures.

Le dénouement explosif de "The Mortal Instruments", la série phare de Cassandra Clare ! Les ténèbres s'abattent sur le Monde Obscur. Le chaos et la destruction se propagent à une vitesse terrifiante. Clary, Jace, Simon et leurs compagnons rassemblent leurs forces pour faire face au démon le plus puissant qu'ils aient jamais affronté : Sébastien, le frère de Clary. Rien ne semble pouvoir l'arrêter. L'unique espoir de l'anéantir se trouve au cœur du Royaume des Démons. Mais, pour les Chasseurs d'Ombres, ce voyage exige de lourds sacrifices. La quête s'annonce plus difficile que jamais.

Alors que Simon s'adapte difficilement à sa condition de vampire, Clary et Jace filent le parfait amour... ou presque. La guerre est terminée. Clary rentre à New York pour s'entraîner à devenir Chasseur d'Ombres. Mais les tensions se ravivent avec les Créatures Obscures, des Chasseurs d'Ombres sont assassinés... Les deux camps se préparent à une nouvelle confrontation et se disputent Simon, un vampire aux nombreux pouvoirs. Ils ne reculeront devant rien. Au risque pour Clary de perdre tous ceux qu'elle aime... y compris Jace.

Clary est folle de joie. Lilith serait anéantie et Jace sauvé... Mais quand les "Chasseurs d'Ombres" viennent le libérer, ils ne trouvent que du sang et du verre brisé. Jace a disparu. Clary découvre bientôt qu'il est devenu un serviteur des démons ! Son sort est désormais lié à celui de Sébastien, son pire ennemi... Pour sauver l'homme qu'elle aime, Clary va devoir risquer plus que sa vie. Existe-t-il encore le moindre espoir ?

All Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation - a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshiping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world. A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. Years ago. As a joke. Now, Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand and its elusive new leader before the cult can cause any more damage. 

To save her mother's life, Clary must travel to the City of Glass, the ancestral home of the Shadowhunters - never mind that entering the city without permission is against the Law, and breaking the Law could mean death. To make things worse, she learns that Jace does not want her there, and Simon has been thrown in prison by the Shadowhunters, who are deeply suspicious of a vampire who can withstand sunlight.

Simon Lewis has been a human and a vampire, and now he is becoming a Shadowhunter. The events of City of Heavenly Fire left him stripped of his memories, and Simon isn't sure who he is anymore. So when the Shadowhunter Academy reopens, Simon throws himself into this new world of demon-hunting, determined to find himself again. Whomever this new Simon might be. But the Academy is a Shadowhunter institution, which means it has some problems.

Innocent blood has been spilled on the steps of the Council Hall, the sacred stronghold of the Shadowhunters. In the wake of the tragic death of Livia Blackthorn, the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war. One fragment of the Blackthorn family flees to Los Angeles, seeking to discover the source of the disease that is destroying the race of warlocks. Meanwhile, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and undertake a perilous mission to Faerie to retrieve the Black Volume of the Dead.

The Lightwoods, the Shadowhunters who run the New York Institute, are expecting a new addition to their family: the orphaned son of their father’s friend, Jace Wayland. Alec and Isabelle aren’t too sure they want a new brother, and their parents are not assuaging their fears, too occupied with the dark news that Raphael Santiago, second-in-command of the New York vampire clan, has brought from the Shadow Market. 

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....

Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon and Alec must flee – even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned. Love will be sacrificed and lives lost in the thrilling and long-awaited final installment of the bestselling and acclaimed Mortal Instruments.

The New York Times best-selling Mortal Instruments continues - and so do the thrills and danger for Jace, Clary, and Simon. Can the lost be reclaimed? What price is too high to pay for love? Who can be trusted when sin and salvation collide? Darkness threatens to claim the Shadowhunters in the harrowing fifth book of the Mortal Instruments series.

Number-one New York Times best-selling author Cassandra Clare created the Mortal Instruments in 2004 with City of Bones (Simon & Schuster, 2007). Since then, the series has grown to five books, with a sixth due in 2014, and been joined by two spinoff trilogies and an upcoming film starring Jamie Campbell Power and Lily Collins. Featuring stories by Holly Black, Kendare Blake, Gwenda Bond, Sarah Rees Brennan, Rachel Caine, Sarah Cross, Kami Garcia, Michelle Hodkin, Kelly Link, Kate Milford, Diana Peterfreund, Sara Ryan, Scott Tracey, and Robin Wasserman.

Don't miss The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones, soon to be a major motion picture, in theaters August 2013. Danger intensifies for the Shadowhunters as the New York Times best-selling Infernal Devices trilogy comes to a close. If the only way to save the world was to destroy what you loved most, would you do it? The clock is ticking. Everyone must choose. Passion. Power. Secrets. Enchantment. Danger closes in around the Shadowhunters in the final installment of the best-selling Infernal Devices trilogy.

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing - not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

Emma Carstairs has finally avenged her parents. She thought she'd be at peace. But she is anything but calm. Torn between her desire for her parabatai, Julian, and her desire to protect him from the brutal consequences of parabatai relationships, she has begun dating his brother, Mark. But Mark has spent the past five years trapped in Faerie; can he ever truly be a Shadowhunter again?