This second book in the Infernal Devices series, after Clockwork Angel, answers a few questions but leaves readers wanting more. Tessa desperately wants to know who she truly is and WHAT she is (human? Downworlder?), and at the same time, she finds herself drawn to the quiet and kind Jem, even as she still battles the feelings she has for the handsome but troubled Will. At the beginning of this book, another Shadowhunter challenges Charlotte’s ability to run the Institute, and the little “family” is given only a short time to defend her.Īs Charlotte and the young people under her charge soon find out, there are more questions than answers about Mortmain the deeper they look into his past, and more threats to their safety and that of Tessa, from surprising sources. 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?Īs 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.Tessa Gray has found a home at the London Institute, where a small group of Shadowhunters is trying to find out more about the dark plans of the mysterious Mortmain, who wants Tessa’s shape-changing powers for himself. But something is changing in Will-the wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, but her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. 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. 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. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life.

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. 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. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. In the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters.

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