The Infernal Devices II : Clockwork Prince (2011)

English

True love is shrouded in secrets and lies in the #1 New York Times bestselling second book of the Infernal Devices trilogy.

In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the street—and easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessa’s powers for his own dark ends.

With the help of the handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magister’s war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister himself knows their every move—and that one of their own has betrayed them.

Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Will—the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?

As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.

Clockwork Angel (2010)

English

London, April 1878. Shadowhunter William Herondale kills a Shax demon and searches for Jem his "hunting buddy" (parabatai). Jem is in an alley and has found the body of fourteen-year-old Emma Bayliss. They find a dagger imprinted with two snakes each biting the other's tail, an ouroboros.
Southampton, May. Tessa is thinking of her clockwork angel necklace when she arrives at Southampton dock aboard the Main, expecting to find her brother Nate waiting for her. Tessa was living in NY with her Aunt Harriet, but her aunt had passed away recently and her brother asked her to come stay with him in Liverpool. At the port, instead of her brother, Tessa finds the Dark Sisters, Mrs. Dark and Mrs. Black, who have a letter from her brother saying that he could not meet her because of business, but that the sisters will bring her to him. Tessa goes with them.
Six Weeks Later. Tessa has been held prisoner by the Sisters. They have been training her to Change (a process by which she takes on the appearance of someone else, living or dead, by holding something which belongs to them). This time Tessa becomes Emma Bayliss and relives her last few moments alive. The sisters are impressed and tell Tessa that they have been preparing her for an arranged marriage to a mysterious individual known as "the Magister." The expect the marriage to take place that day or the next. The sisters leave and Tessa tries to run away but is caught by the Sister's coachman. Tessa is tied to her bed, she attempts to escape again by using the Change. Just as she escapes her bindings the door opens. It is Will, who followed the trail from Emma's body to an organization called the Pandemonium Club and the Sister's house. Will and his friends proceed to help Tessa escape and when the Dark Sisters catch up a battle begins in which Mrs. Black is killed, and Tessa is knocked unconscious.
Tessa awakens in the London Institute to find herself being examined by Brother Enoch, one of the Silent Brothers, who informs her that she is a shape-changer and a Downworlder. Tessa meets the inhabitants of the Institute. The next morning Jessamine takes Tessa shopping; Charlotte and Henry look for Tessa's brother; and Will and Jem inspect the Sister's house. Will and Jem find a clockwork automaton wrapped in human flesh. A vampire named de Quincy is identified as the Magister and is said to have Tessa's brother. Tessa and Will infiltrate one of de Quincy's parties. At his parties de Quincy slowly drains a human victim; this is against the Accord, which allows the Shadowhunters to attack de Quincy. Things go terribly wrong at the party when de Quincy's victim is revealed to be Tessa's brother Nate.
Tessa and the Shadowhunters kill the vampires at the party, save Nate and bring him to the institute, but de Quincy escapes. Will bites a vampire, while fighting, and accidentally swallows some of the vampires blood. To get the blood out of his system, so he won't turn into a vampire, has to drink holy water. When Tessa brings him a bucket of holy water they kiss. Tessa and Jem go for a walk and are attacked by the Magister's clockwork army. They make it to the institute where the Shadowhunters barely fight the army off. Jem reveals that he is addicted to demon blood and is slowly dying from it. Most of the Shadowhunters leave to kill de Quincy who is hiding out. Mortmain, the mundane who informed the Shadowhunters of de Quincy comes back to the institute and tells Will and Jem the location of the Dark sister who is trying to help the Magister with his army. They rush off to kill her leaving Nate, Jessamine and Tessa alone. Mortmain comes back with the clockwork army and reveals himself as the real Magister. Nate reveals himself as Mortmain's accomplice. The girls lock themselves in a room, but Mortmain tricks them to open the door. Tessa agrees to marry Mortmain if he will leave everyone alone and he agrees. Once the army has left the room Tessa stabs herself in the heart and Mortmain leaves.
Will rushes back when he realizes his mistake. At the Institute he runs into the army and Nate. Nate orders the army to kill Will. Jem makes it back and helps Will and then the rest of the Shadowhunters arrive. The army leaves. Will finds Tessa who is alive; she Changed quickly just before stabbing herself and the blood was from a gunshot victim she had Changed to before with the Sisters. Tessa is asked to stay at the Institute and she happily accepts. Tessa wants to have a serious relationship with Will, but he says that she cannot have children (she is a warlock) so it is impossible. Jem comforts her though she will not tell him exactly what Will did to annoy her. Will seeks Magnus Bane's help, but it is not revealed for what reason.

Vacations from Hell (2010)

English

In this must-have collection, five of today's hottest writers - Libba Bray (A Great and Terrible Beauty), Cassandra Clare (City of Bones), Claudia Gray (Evernight), Maureen Johnson (13 Little Blue Envelopes), and Sarah Mlynowski (Bras & Broomsticks) - tell supernatural tales of vacations gone awry. Lost luggage is only mildly unpleasant compared to bunking with a witch who holds a grudge. And a sunburn might be embarrassing and painful, but it doesn't last as long as a curse. Of course, even in the most hellish of situations, love can thrive. . . .
From light and funny to dark and creepy, these stories have something for everyone. You definitely won't want to leave this 
collection at home! 

 Español

Cinco relatos de aventura y amor sobre vacaciones  que se echan a perder  por oscuras y escalofriantes razones. Hasta en las circustancias más infernales y aterradoras, al amor puede prosperar...

City of fallen Angels (2010)

English

City of Fallen Angels will be the fourth book in the Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare. The series was meant to end with City of Glass, but it was announced that in March 2010, a fourth book would be added. Amazon states that it will release the book on April 5, 2011.^[1] The fourth installment will equally follow the stories of Clary Fray, Jace Wayland, and Simon Lewis,^[2] despite rumors that the novel would only feature Simon as the main character. When asked about the change in point of view for the next novel Clare replied, “Simon has always been one of my favorite characters to write about, and I’m excited to get the chance to tell his story while revisiting some of the other characters that I love from The Mortal Instruments series. The enthusiasm for telling Simon’s story that I’ve received from the team at McElderry Books and Simon & Schuster has been great, and I’m excited to be working with them to bring a fourth book to the series.”
Clare describes the next book by saying, "City of Fallen Angels takes place after the events of City of Glass. It splits its focus between Jace and Clary and Clary’s best friend, Simon, and how he adjusts to life as a vampire, but it’s still an ensemble-cast story, and all the characters from the Mortal Instruments series appear in it: Jace, Isabelle, Alec, Magnus, Luke, Jocelyn, Maia, and many more. (It even helps to have read Clockwork Angel before you read City of Fallen Angels, because some of the characters from The Infernal Devices series do show up in it. However, it isn’t required.) In City of Fallen Angels, someone has been killing the Shadowhunters who used to be in Valentine’s Circle and leaving their bodies around New York City in a manner designed to provoke hostility between Downworlders and Shadowhunters. Internecine warfare among vampires is ripping the Downworld community apart, and only Simon — the Daylighter who everyone wants on their side — can decide the outcome; too bad he wants nothing to do with Downworld politics. Meanwhile, Jace and Clary investigate a mystery that has deeply personal consequences for them — consequences that may strengthen their relationship, or rip it apart forever. Love, blood, betrayal and revenge: the stakes are higher than ever in City of Fallen Angels."^[3]
It was later announced that there will be two more installments now following City of Fallen Angels, titled 'City of Lost Souls', and 'City of Heavenly Fire'.

The Eternal Kiss : 13 Vampire Tales of Blood and Desire (2009)

English

There’s an allure to vampire tales that have seduced readers for generations. From Bram Stoker to Stephenie Meyer and beyond, vampire stories are here to stay. For those fresh-blooded fans of paranormal romance or for those whose hunt and hunger never dies, these stories have what readers want!

City of glass (2009)

English

The third book in the Mortal Instruments series starts a week after City of Ashes. The Lightwoods, Jace, and Clary are leaving for the city of Alicante that evening with the help of Magnus who was going to open a Portal. However, Simon goes to the Institute, where he and the Shadowhunters (except Clary) are attacked by dozens of Forsaken. One of them ends up hurting Simon. Magnus Bane opens the Portal they were using to get to Alicante that night, and the group jumps through to escape their attackers, taking Simon with them. Clary finds out and is infuriated because they left her, and in her anger creates a Portal to the city. Luke, knowing she could hurt herself, jumps in with her. They land in Lake Lyn, where the angel Raziel came out of to make the first Shadowhunters. Clary swallows some of the water and, because of the lake’s cursed magical properties, she begins to fever and hallucinate while she and Luke walk to Alicante. Luke gets Clary help from his sister, Amatis Herondale, (Stephen Herondale's first wife). Amatis agrees to let Clary stay with her.
Meanwhile, Jace, Simon, and the Lightwoods are introduced to Aline Penhallow, and her handsome cousin Sebastian Verlac. Jace immediately dislikes Sebastian, and flirts with Aline - a fact that angers Simon. Alec is ordered to bring Simon to meet the new Inquisitor, who is curious as to why they brought a Downworlder into Alicante. Simon, while under the impression that the Clave will Portal him back to New York, is thrown in jail after being interrogated. The next day the Inquisitor talks to him and tells him he wants Simon to lie about the Lightwoods, meaning that they never left Valentine and that they (including Alec, but not Isabelle and Max) are working for him, which Simon refuses and she puts him in jail again.
Clary sneaks out of Amatis’s house to visit the Lightwoods, where she catches Jace and Aline kissing and has a big argument with Jace. Leaving in anger, she runs into Sebastian, and tells him about how her mother is in a magical coma, and that she needs to find the warlock Ragnor Fell to fix it. Jace lashes out at Alec, admits that he knows Alec thinks himself to be in love with him but says that it is because he (Jace) was “safe”, and an excuse to not get into a relationship with Magnus.
Clary and Sebastian go to Ragnor’s house the next day, and Clary (while Sebastian is frozen because Magnus doesn’t trust him) is shocked to learn that Ragnor was killed and Magnus was there in his place. Magnus tells Clary what she needs, and the answer is in a spell book disguised as a cookbook in the Wayland country home. Sebastian takes Clary to the ruins of Fairchild manor where he kisses her but she pushes him away. Sebastian then tells Clary about Simon being in jail. In jail Raphael (in projection=not corporally there) visits Simon and tells him to go far where no one can find him because he (Simon) is dangerous for the vampire species...

City of ashes (2008)

English

Events take place directly after where the story in City of Bones finished. The story is told in third person and mostly from the perspective of Clary, including her confusion over her relationship with her new found brother and her feelings for Simon.
Clary Fray starts to wish for her life to go back to normal.^[2] But her life is far from it as a demon-slaying Shadowhunter.
The story starts with a brief scene of Valentine who has paid a warlock to summon the Demon of Fear who kills the warlock. Valentine raised the Mortal Cup which gives him absolute power over the Greater Demon. Then it cuts to Clary whose mother still hasn't woken up, and she is living at Luke's house. Simon get sick, which makes Clary startled and then he kisses her in the kitchen, and later calls her his girlfriend. Jace is sent from home by Alec's parents. He goes to a bar and picks a fight with a werewolf pack, after it is revealed that there was a were child slain in the alley way. Jace was asked to help, and he had seemed indifferent of the situation, causing the pack to attack. Luke later saves him and calls Clary. The three of them go to the Institute and confront Alec's mother (Maryse) who explains that the Inquisitor is coming to talk with Jace and she was trying to spare him. Clary goes back home to Luke's with Simon and he stays over. She gets up to go fix herself up in the bathroom when she received a text message from Isabelle. When the Inquisitor arrived to Institute, Jace, using his so-called charm, angers the Inquisitor and she locks him in the Silent City. That night, sitting in the cell of the Silent City, Jace hears the screams of the Silent Brothers as something is attacking everyone. He finds out that Valentine kills the Silent Brothers to get the Soul-Sword (Second of the Mortal Instruments). Clary comes to the Institute where Isabelle and Alec explain that Jace was thrown in the prison. A distress call goes out to the Institute from the Silent City, but the adult Shadowhunters were called to the park where a Faerie Child was killed and were not available at the moment. Isabelle and Alec decide to go find Jace and Clary tags along to go to save Jace, since she is the only person who knows the entrance. They discover all of the brothers have been killed, locate Jace, and when they emerge, they look a group of shadowhunters (including Maryse and the Inquisitor). The Inquisitor believes that Jace might have had a hand in the killing because the Soul-Sword is the only instrument to use against the Shadowhunter to prove if he is lying or telling the truth. Then Magnus Bane appears offering his apparment to take Jace as a prisoner. Later on, Alec, Clary and Simon goes to Magnus' apartment to visit Jace and found out about Valentine's possible plans
They go to The Faerie Realm and Clary was told to stay as she was tricked into taking fairy food. However, the Seelie Queen said that "the kiss the girl most desires" will allow Clary to leave, leading Clary to kiss Jace in front of the whole Court. Simon storms off when they leave the realm. Clary, Jace and Isabelle go back to the Institution taking advantage that no one is in there. Clary and Jace have a fight about each other feelings and the fact that they are siblings in Jace's room. Later Raphael shows up at the Institute with Simon dying in his arms, with the only choice left for him to become a vampire...

Español

Clary Fray desearía que su vida volviera a la normalidad. Si pudiera dejar atrás el mundo de los cazadores de sombras, tendría más tiempo para Simon, su mejor amigo, que se está convirtiendo en algo más... Pero el mundo subterráneo que acaba de descubrir no está preparado para dejarla ir; en especial ese apuesto y exasperante Jace el cual supuestamente.es su hermano y no la qiere fuera de su vida. Para complicar las cosas, una ola de asesinatos sacude la ciudad. Clary cree que Valentine está detrás de esas muertes para obtener la Espada Mortal, los cazadores de sombras son invitados a la corte de las Hadas, donde la Reina Seelie provoca una escena donde Jace y Clary tienen que besarse para poder liberar a Clary de la Corte, que perturba a Simon y este huye de de ellos que al final termina comertido en Vampiro....Descubriendo nuevos y asombrosos secretos, en esta soberbia secuela de Ciudad de Hueso, Cassandra Clare arrastra de nuevo a sus lectores a las siniestras garras del Submundo de Nueva York, donde el amor jamás está a salvo y el poder se convierte en la tentación más letal.

City of bones (2007)

English

The main characters, Clary Fray and Simon Lewis, are at a club where Clary witnesses a murder by a group of teens, and is shocked that Simon and the club's security guard, cannot see the killer—a boy called Jace, who claims that the boy he murdered was a demon. The next day, Jace offers to take Clary to meet his tutor, but before she can do so, she receives a distressing phone call from her mother. She returns home to find her mother missing, the apartment trashed, and a monstrous creature, a Ravener demon, lying in wait for her. She defeats the creature, but is injured in the process, and Jace takes her to his home. His home is called "The Institute", an old gothic cathedral in New York that humans, or mundanes, can't see, because it is concealed magically by glamour. Here, she recuperates. She also meets Hodge Starkweather, Jace's tutor, as well as his adoptive-siblings Isabelle and Alec Lightwood.
Returning to her apartment with Jace, Clary is attacked again by a monster called a "Forsaken", which Jace kills. They escape through a magical portal in to Luke's, a family friend's, house, where they meet Simon and overhear a conversation between Luke and two men who Jace reveals to have killed his father. They return, with Simon, to the Institute and recount the conversation to Hodge, who in return tells them the tale of a group of '"Shadowhunters", or demon hunters who are invisible to humans, known as "the Circle", who attempted to kill all "Downworlders", or vampires, fairies, warlocks, and werewolves. Although the Circle's leader, Valentine, was supposedly burned to death, Hodge feels that Valentine may have survived. Hodge also reveals that he, the Lightwoods, Luke, and Clary's mother were all members of the Circle.
Hodge then acquires the help of a monk with magical powers, called a "Silent Brother", Jeremiah, to discover how Clary is able to see Shadowhunters and why she was attacked. Jeremiah discovers a block on Clary's mind, and takes her and Jace to the City of Bones, where the Silent Brothers attempt to break it. Although the attempt fails, Clary discovers flashes of information, particularly the name Magnus Bane, which, with Isabelle's help, Clary traces Magnus Bane to a party, which she attends with Jace, Simon, Alec and Isabelle. There, they discover that Magnus is the High Warlock of Brooklyn, and he placed the block on Clary, although his attempts to help her remember are unhelpful. During the party, Simon is turned into a rat by a faerie drink, and Jace and Clary have to rescue him after he is taken home by a vampire...

Español

El libro comienza cuando la protagonista, Clary Fray, observa a un extraño chico con el pelo azulado que estaba en la entrada del Club Pandemonium. Más tarde, dos chicos sospechosos van tras el chico de pelo azul, por lo que Clary decide avisar a su amigo Simon, pero él no ve a nadie y, creyendo a Clary, va a buscar a un guardia. Justo cuando uno de los chicos está a punto de matar al chico de pelo azul, Clary se involucra ante sorpresa de todos. El chico de pelo azul, que es un demonio, trata de escapar, pero es asesinado por uno de los muchachos e inmediatamente desaparece su cadáver. Clary descubre entonces que los chicos no son asesinos, sino cazadores de sombras, una antigua raza creada mediante una mezcla de sangre entre el ángel Raziel y un humano, los cuales con frecuencia usan runas para ser invisibles a ojo humano y asi ser protectores de la humanidad.
La siguiente noche, cuando Clary y Simon van a un bar(Java Jones) para ver el espectáculo de un amigo de estos, se encuentra a Jace, uno de los chicos de la noche anterior. En ese momento, Clary recibe una extraña llamada de su madre e, inmediatamente, se dirige a su apartamento, donde es atacada por un demonio rapiñador. Jace la encuentra herida y la lleva al Instituto, el lugar donde él vive y entrena para matar a los demonios.
Allí Clary conoce a Hodge, el tutor del Instituto, que le explica que su madre fue una cazadora de sombras. También le dice que su padre fue el que envió el demonio, con el fin de obtener la Copa Mortal. La Copa Mortal, es el único objeto capaz de crear cazadores de sombras utilizando humanos.
Clary se da cuenta de que ella es la única con la capacidad para recuperarla, y lo tiene que hacer a tiempo para salvar a su madre y decidir el destino del mundo.