Kit stripped off the denim jacket he was wearing-he didn’t know which of the Blackthorns it had belonged to originally he’d woken up the morning after he’d come to the Institute to find a freshly laundered pile of clothes at the foot of his bed-and shrugged on a padded jacket. He could think of at least three people at the Shadow Market who’d buy them off him for good money, no questions asked. But the daggers were works of art, their hilts inlaid with gold and silver and precious gems-blue sapphires, cabochon rubies, glimmering patterns of thorns etched in platinum and black diamonds. It wasn’t that he had any particular desire to learn how to use a dagger-nothing beyond the general interest he figured most teenagers had in deadly weapons, but even then, he’d rather be issued a machine gun or a flamethrower. Of more interest to Kit was the shelf that held daggers. The granite islands themselves were covered with stacks of gleaming instruments carved out of adamas, the quartz-like substance that Shadowhunters mined from the earth and that they alone knew how to turn into swords and blades and steles.

Morning stars covered in terrible spikes, and crossbows of all sizes and types. There were staves and maces, cleverly designed walking sticks, necklaces, boots and padded jackets that concealed slim, flat blades for stabbing and throwing. The walls and floors were white-silver granite, and granite islands rose at intervals throughout the room, making the whole place look like the arms and armor exhibit at a museum. He had never seen anything like the weapons room at the Los Angeles Institute before. Kit had only recently found out what a flail was, and now there was a rack of them hanging over his head, shiny and sharp and deadly. But success may come with a price he and Emma cannot even imagine, one that will have repercussions for everyone and everything they hold dear. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma her best friend, Cristina and Mark and Julian Blackthorn embark on a journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted.Īs dangers close in, Julian devises a risky new scheme that depends on the cooperation of an unpredictable enemy. Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. But how can she when the Blackthorn family is threatened by enemies on all sides? Lord of Shadows is a Shadowhunters novel.Įmma Carstairs has just learned that the love she shares with her warrior partner and parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden-it could destroy them both. Sunny Los Angeles can be a dark place indeed in Cassandra Clare’s Lord of Shadows, the bestselling sequel to Lady Midnight. A #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller

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