Questa serie si addentra in un mondo di Cacciatori di Ombre, guerrieri semidivini che combattono demoni nella New York moderna. Segue una giovane donna mentre scopre l'eredità nascosta della propria famiglia e trova il suo posto in questo regno segreto. Aspettatevi trame intricate piene di romanticismo proibito, intrighi politici e battaglie ad alto rischio contro forze soprannaturali. La narrazione esplora temi di identità, destino e le complesse relazioni che ci plasmano.
Cinque anni fa, i genitori della Shadowhunter Emma Carstairs sono stati brutalmente uccisi. E lei non ha mai smesso di cercare l'assassino. Emma deve imparare a fidarsi del suo cuore e della sua intelligenza mentre lei e il suo parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, si trovano invischiati in un complotto demoniaco che si ramifica per tutta Los Angeles. Se solo il suo cuore non la spingesse continuamente verso le strade più buie, e insidiose...
Emma is torn between her passion for Julian and her need to protect him from the consequences of a forbidden romantic partnership, a situation challenged by her relationship with Mark and his efforts to regain his Shadowhunter capabilities
Dark secrets and forbidden love threaten the very survival of the Shadowhunters in Cassandra Clare's Queen of Air and Darkness, the final novel in the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling The Dark Artifices trilogy. Queen of Air and Darkness is a Shadowhunters novel What if damnation is the price of true love? 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 blight 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. What they find in the Courts is a secret that may tear the Shadow World asunder and open a dark path into a future they could never have imagined. Caught in a race against time, Emma and Julian must save the world of Shadowhunters before the deadly power of the parabatai curse destroys them and everyone they love.
Los Angeles, 2012. Dvanáctiletá lovkyně stínů Emma Carstairsová přišla během Temné války o rodiče. Nyní je z ní mladá žena, která je odhodlaná pátrat po pravdě a pomstě. Spolu se svým parabátai Juliánem Blackthornem se snaží překazit spiknutí a rozbít temnou mafii, jejíž vliv sahá od Sunset Stripu až k magickým hlubinám oceánu. Aby uspěla, musí se naučit důvěřovat svému srdci, které ji svádí na scestí. Po událostech, které následovaly, hrozí lovcům stínů občanská válka. Rodina Blackthornových se ocitá uprostřed konfliktu, který by mohl roztrhnout svět. Mladší sourozenci Blackthornovi se vracejí do Los Angeles, aby zjistili příčiny záhadné nemoci, jež ohrožuje čaroděje. Julián s Emmou se vydávají na nebezpečnou misi do říše sličného lidu, aby získali Černý spis mrtvých. To, co na dvorech odhalí, by mohlo zničit celý svět a otevřít cestu k temné budoucnosti, kterou si dosud nedokázali představit.
All three books in the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling Dark Artifices trilogy are now available together in a collectible paperback boxed set. The Dark Artifices is a sequel series to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Emma Carstairs is a Shadowhunter—the best in her generation. Together with her best friend and warrior partner Julian Blackthorn, she patrols the streets of Los Angeles, where faeries—the most powerful of supernatural creatures—teeter on the edge of open war with Shadowhunters. But when bodies of murdered humans and faeries continue to turn up, Emma and Julian must strike an uneasy alliance with their supposed enemies in order to find the killer. Meanwhile, an extremist faction of Shadowhunters called the Cohort will do anything to seize power and turn Shadowhunters against Downworlders once and for all. Emma, Julian, and their friends must embark on a series of quests from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica, and deep into the realms of Faerie and beyond in order to save the Shadow World as they know it—even as a deadly and ancient curse threatens to destroy them and everyone they love. This beautifully packaged boxed set includes: Lady Midnight Lord of Shadows Queen of Air and Darkness