Clock Work Angle by Cassandra Clare

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 died 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 Quincey is identified as the Magister and is said to have Tessa's brother. Tessa and Will infiltrate one of de Quincey's parties. At his parties de Quincey slowly drains a human victim; this is against the Accord, which allows the Shadowhunters to attack de Quincey. Things go terribly wrong at the party when de Quincey'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 Quincey 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 suggests a strictly sexual relation and tells Tessa that she cannot have children (she is assumed to be 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.

City of Fallen Angles by Cassandra Clare

The book follows Simon's difficult transition into vampirism, but equally shows us more about Jace and Clary's relationship. Simon receives an offer from a vampire named Camille Belcourt who claims to have been usurped by Raphael. She says that if Simon joins her side as the Daylighter, then he will finally earn his place in vampire society. His mom discovers the blood bottles in his refrigerator and he uses his new vampiric power of persuasion to erase the memories. He then runs away to his new band mate, Kyle's house. Kyle is revealed to be Maia's former werewolf boyfriend Jordan Kyle, who bit her at the end of their relationship, therefore turning Maia into a werewolf. As Simon tries to adjust to life as a vampire, with the Mark of Cain, he is attacked numerous times and each time the Mark's curse works and the attackers are killed.

Meanwhile, Jace has dreams in which he murders Clary by stabbing her or choking her. Clary's mother, Jocelyn, is having difficulty adjusting to Jace as Clary's boyfriend when he reminds her so much of Valentine. Clary and her mother also discover that someone is trying to make more children like Jonathan, which again Jocelyn has trouble coming to terms with.

At one of Simon's Bands gigs, Simon runs off stage ill (mostly due to his lack of blood consumption). Maureen, the band's only fan, follows Simon and asks for his picture. Halfway through taking it, Simon bites her and drinks her blood, interrupted just in time by Jordan. The day after, they receive a message saying someone was holding Simon's girlfriend hostage, and he should go to save her. Calling up Clary, Isabelle and Maia, Simon determines it was a joke, only to find it was actually Maureen who had been kidnapped and they had killed her.

Jocelyn and Luke (now engaged) attend an engagement party organized by Luke's werewolf pack, in which Simon disappears. Simon is led away from the party by Maureen, now a vampire, and is taken to Lilith, the creator of all demons, who has been alive since the beginning of time, who turned up at one of Simon's bands gigs and introduced herself as a promoter called Satrina (one of 17 names given to Lilith). She explains that she needs him to resurrect Sebastian from the dead. When he tells her he cannot bring the dead back to life, she tells him that he has had that power since he became a Daylighter. In order to persuade him to resurrect Jonathan, she possesses Jace, through his dreams (a matter of a protective ritual performed when a Shadowhunter is born; When Jace died in Idris and was resurrected by the Angel, this ritual was undone, leaving Jace vulnerable to possession) and orders him to kidnap Clary. Jace brings Clary to Lilith and she orders him to kill her if Simon does not resurrect Sebastian. Simon bites him and drains some of his blood. This poisons him because Sebastian has demon blood.

While Isabelle, Alec, Maia, and Jordan had followed after Simon using a business card they found in his wallet, to find him. When they get the building they check every floor until they found him, but instead of finding Simon they found the place that Lilith had used as her nurser, all the children dead. Everyone of them had clawed hands and black eyes like the one clary and her mom seen at the hospital. The babies were the outcome of lilith trying to make half demon children like Sebastion. While going through the room Isabelle notices a shape in the corner and attacks it, but it turns out to be a mother of one of the babies who then tells them the story of what was happening.

Meanwhile, Clary grabs Jace's knife and cuts the rune that Lilith is using to possess him on his chest, causing the real Jace to awaken and help to kill Lilith, who is really killed by Simon, when he throws himself in between Lilith and Clary, when Lilith is torturing Clary in front of Jace. The Clave appears at the scene, and Isabelle tells them the story of what happened downstairs while Jace is waiting for them upstairs. The book ends with Jace's rune healing, hearing Sebastian's voice in his head, and with Sebastian/Jonathan now in control of Jace, Jace is forced to finish the awakening ritual on Sebastian, who is now wholly alive.

This is my favorite teen lit series, I think that Cassandra Clare is an excellent writer. She knows how to give you just enough to keep you wanting to read. I was not very happy about how this book ends, but I am hoping that things have a happy ending.

City of Glass by Cassandra Clare

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 he 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.

Clary returns to Amatis's house to find Jace waiting for her. She confronts him about Simon ending up in jail, and they have a brief fight. Afterwards, she gets Jace to take her to Wayland manor making a portal with Jace's stele, where they discover an underground laboratory that Valentine had below the manor. They find a half-dead angel named Ithuriel who shows them memories, and Jace learns that he has demon blood, due to an experiment that Valentine performed on him while Jace was in the womb. The two then give Ithuriel a knife, realizing that there was no way to nurse the angel back to health. Ithuriel kills himself and the manor collapses, but both Jace and Clary survive. They kiss, then get into an argument, and they walk the five hours home in silence because Clary lost Jace's stele, only to find the city below them, Alicante, in flames.

Meanwhile, Alec, Isabelle, Aline, Sebastian, and Max are in Alicante, and they are attacked by demons, taking Aline, Isabelle goes out while Alec hides Max. In the streets she finds out there are a lot of demons and the wards are no longer working. Alec finds her and heads to the house. Sebastian, Max, and Isabelle hide in the house, while Alec goes out again to fight demons. Isabelle while in the house goes upstairs to get weapons, and returns to find Sebastian in the kitchen, and Max nowhere to be found. Isabelle starts to worry, right before she gets hit in the head with a hammer. Meanwhile, Alec is out looking for Aline when he finds Magnus. After saving his life they have a discussion about their relationship and Alec promises that if they both live he will introduce Magnus to his whole family. Jace and Clary enter Alicante and find Maia who saves them from a demon and tells them that Luke brought all the werewolves he could think of to help the Shadowhunters and that they have been helping by hiding the Shadowhunters in the Hall of the Accords (including Alec and Magnus).

Jace and Clary run to the Hall of the Accords with Maia and find Alec. Clary meets Luke, who starts having a discussion with the Consul. Clary sneaks off and gives the spell book they found at the manor to Magnus, who promises to cure Clary’s mother, Clary thanks him when Sebastian comes in and sees Magnus with the book, at the same time Jace appears with Alec. Sebastian takes Clary out of the group and tells her Simon is still in jail. Clary runs off with Jace and Alec.

The trio arrives at the jail where Simon is kept and breaks him out. They also get Samuel out, who they learn is actually Hodge, the previous keeper of the Institute. He tells them that the third of the Mortal Instruments (the mirror), the only one Valentine does not possess, is none other than Lake Lyn. Sebastian goes up and kills Hodge, claiming it was to keep them out of danger. When Simon sees Hodge's blood, he goes away to calm himself. Jace, Clary and Alec realize Sebastian is not who he pretends to be. Realizing his cover is blown; Sebastian admits to being a spy for Valentine and starts a fight with them, then Simon appears and attacks him, causing Sebastian to run away. The four teens go back to the Hall, and learn that Max was killed by Sebastian.

The next day, Aline visits Clary and Simon and tells them the Sebastian who had been with them is not the real Sebastian by showing them pictures of the real Sebastian (she hadn't seen Sebastian since she was a child) and they also suspect that it has happened to others. Valentine comes as a Projection and warns the Clave that they have until midnight of the next day to surrender. If they don’t, then Valentine will attack Alicante and slay every Shadowhunter left. He kills the Inquisitor instead of Luke, to Clary's surprise. After that the he leaves.

Clary and Simon go to the new house where the Lightwoods are staying and tell them (excluding Isabelle because she is locked in her room) that Sebastian wasn't really Sebastian. Jace takes Clary to Amatis's house while Simon decides to stay and try talking to Isabelle who blames herself for Max's death. Reluctantly Isabelle let Simon go inside her room and the two end up sleeping together. Meanwhile, at Amatis’s house Jace tells Clary how much he loves her. They talk and end up falling asleep on the bed together. At the Hall of the Accords, Luke and some other Shadowhunters are trying to make a plan with no progress when discretely Jace comes. Luke goes out to talk with Jace who tells him he is going to go and find Sebastian and kill Valentine. At Amatis’s house, Clary wakes up to find that Jace is gone, and in his place he left the Morgenstern ring and a note, saying that he has gone to find Sebastian.

Clary goes downstairs and sees Simon and Isabelle making breakfast. She tells Isabelle what happened and they have a discussion where Simon interferes. Then Clary’s mother Jocelyn, after coming out of her coma, shows up at the door. She and her mother argue, then Clary, in a fit of anger, storms out of the house to a hill, where she is eventually joined by Simon. They have a conversation and realize that the reason Simon can go out in sunlight is because he had drunk Jace’s blood, who isn’t a “normal Shadowhunter”. They also see, while sitting on the hill, that the Clave was planning to surrender to Valentine. Clary flashes back to a rune that the dying Ithuriel had showed her, and realizes that it was a binding rune, meant to bring a Downworlder and a Shadowhunter together so they can share each other’s powers. She tells the Clave this which, after much deliberation, accepts.

Clary talks with her mother and tell her she is proud of her. She also tells her that Clary was given angel’s blood while in the womb, thus giving her the power to create new runes. Clary also discovered that, while Jace wasn’t actually her brother, Sebastian is (so Sebastian has the demon blood, not Jace). Jace was the son of Stephen Herondale, therefore grandson of the previous Inquisitor (Imogen Herondale, who died in the previous book), and while Jace was not born, he also received angel blood, explaining why he could jump extremely high. Then people start bonding with the Downworlders. Alec "comes out" by kissing Magnus Bane in front of everyone in the Hall, including Robert and Maryse Lightwood.

Meanwhile, the vampire leader Raphael shows up in Projection form and says that if the Clave hands over Simon, then the vampires will fight in the battle. Simon, knowing that Raphael intends to kill him, lets Clary mark him with the Mark of Cain, the first Mark ever used and an extremely powerful protection spell. Simon goes to Raphael, who can’t kill him upon discovering the Mark, but Simon must now fight in the battle.

Jace finds Sebastian talking with Valentine, who intends to go to Lake Lyn to summon Raziel. After Valentine leaves, the two boys fight, and Sebastian tells Jace that he is Clary’s brother, not Jace. Isabelle shows up as Jace is almost killed but Jace has to save her and so kills Sebastian. Clary, upon learning of her father’s plans, Portals to Lake Lyn to stop Valentine from summoning Raziel to get a wish. Valentine binds and silences her with runes. Jace comes to stop Valentine after healing himself from the wounds Sebastian gave him. Because the summoning requires death, Valentine then proceeds to kill Jace and summon the angel Raziel. Raziel, however, sees through Valentine’s selfish plans, and because Clary managed to put her name on the Binding runes instead of her father's, Raziel kills Valentine. Because of the runes Clary gets a wish from Raziel and wishes Jace back to life.

The story ends at the Downworlder party when Clary finds Jace.

City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare

Events take place directly after where the story in City of Bones finished. The story is told in third person, almost entirely from the perspective of the protagonist, Clary. The novel centralizes around Clary's confusion over her previously romantic relationship with her newly revealed brother and Shadowhunter, Jace, as well as her feelings for her childhood best-friend, 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, Clary and Jace's father and antagonist of the series, who has paid a warlock to summon the Demon of Fear, who then kills his summoner. Valentine raised the Mortal Cup which gives him absolute power over the Greater Demon. The story then cuts to Clary who is living with her mother's friend Luke, while her mother remains in the hospital in a coma. While Simon and Clary are watching T.V. a vampire show seems to deeply disturb Simon. When the Clary goes to comfort him, the two share their first kiss. 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 killed 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 see 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 apartment 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 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. Raphael explained that Simon believed that he was already turning into a vampire because he had bitten Raphael in rat form during City of Bones. Because he entered on his own free will, he was considered "free game" and was drained and also given vampire blood. They bury his dead body in a Jewish cemetery, as requested by Clary, and Simon is reborn. After this Clary had ignored Jace as a punishment to herself because fells guilty about Simon. Clary and Simon meets at Luke's house and talk about if whether Simon is going to tell his mother about his new condition, when Luke brings Maia, who has been hurt. Luke goes outside after helping Maia saying he can't do much and that they need a warlock. Simon and Clary call Jace to tell them about the incident, and appears moments later with Alec and Magnus. While Magnus is healing Maia, Jace, Simon, and Clary get involve in a fight outside with demons and find Luke injured. They bring him inside the house and Magnus heals him too. Jace says he knows Magnus is dating a friend of his, making Alec nervous and making it seem he is the one dating Magnus. At Clary's room Jace tells her that he wishes he could hate her. They go after the demons and that night Jace goes to visit Valentine (his father) on a boat in the river. The Inquisitor shows up the next morning and claims Jace was with Valentine and plans to threaten Jace's life unless Valentine returns the Mortal Instruments. She places him in a magically electrified cell in the training room of the institute, and tells him that she is going to trade his life for the Mortal Instruments. He tries to explain to her that it will not work, but she does not believe him. At this time, Maia leaves Luke's apartment to travel to see Simon because she wanted to apologize to him for the names she called him after she was attacked and she realized that he was a vampire. On the way, she is attacked by the Demon of Fear, which she interprets as her older brother who tortured her while he was still alive. Valentine kidnaps her shortly afterward.

Later, Luke and Clary realize Maia is missing, as she had left a note stating that she was going to make amends. Clary realizes that she means Simon, and calls Simon even though it is daytime. He answers and tells her that Maia never made it to the house, and then hears someone breaking in. Clary and Luke jump into the car to go rescue him but Valentine finds him before they can get there in time. Later Alec convinces Jace to find a way out, and suggests he should escape the cell by leaping out of the cage (which only has four walls). There, he calls Clary and she reveals that Simon and Maia were captured by Valentine. He tells her to bring Luke to the Institute, and wait outside for him. Jace tells Alec to call Magnus because he, Clary and Luke are going to need him. He then escapes through Isabelle's window and waits at the roof of the institute. Luke and Clary arrive at the Institute and Clary sees Jace jump from the roof and land safely on the ground. Clary discovers that she can create new runes including the rune "fearlessness". Simon and Maia are currently alive on the boat when Valentine arrives. He then precedes to throw silver dust on Maia, hurting her. He then tells Simon he is going to kill him, and asks him if he has any last words. Simon replies, "Clary," and Valentine proceeds to slash his neck. Jace finds Simon dead and feeds him his blood to return to life. Later on Jace fights a demon which he is sure he cannot win and the Inquisitor appears and sees the star shaped scar Jaces's has. She then kills the demon for Jace and dies leaving Jace very puzzled. Clary confronts Valentine on the boat and she draws the an" open" rune she created which tears the boat apart. Clary falls and is then saved. She looks at Simon who is now a Daylighter, a vampire who is able to withstand the sun. She's relieved that she has saved her mother but disappointed that Jocelyn is still in a coma. Later on she goes to Jace to tell him of her feelings, but as the two of them are talking, Jace speaks before Clary can tell him and he tells her that he will be and act as her brother from then on, as he thinks that's what Clary wanted. Clary reluctantly agrees for the two of them to act as brother and sister, but is hurt and sad by it. After Clary goes to visit her mother. Before entering the door, a woman appears named Madeleine and tells Clary that she knows a way to wake her mother.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

Clary Fray and Simon Lewis are at a club where Clary witnesses a murder by a group of teens. She 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 by shoving Jace’s Sensor down its throat, 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.

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 go to a vampire-infested hotel to rescue Simon who has been taken home by a vampire.

Clary and Jace are helped into the hotel by a teenager named Raphael. He then betrays them and reveals that he is the leader of the vampire coven that are residing inside that hotel, and soon Clary and Jace are fighting for their lives. They are saved by werewolves who claim they want Clary, but Clary and Jace escape and rescue Simon but get injured in the process.

At the institute Clary and Alec have a fight. Jace takes Clary to the Institutes garden where they kiss. Clary realizes where the Mortal Cup is and she, Jace, Isabelle, Alec, and Simon go and retrieve it. Alec gets injured by a greater demon and nearly dies, but Magnus Bane heals him at the Institute. When Clary and Jace give the Mortal Cup to Hodge, he reveals he's working for a man named Valentine who is meant to be dead. Valentine takes Jace. Clary goes after Hodge, but is kidnapped. When Clary wakes up she finds out Luke took her but for her own safety. Clary finds out Valentine's her father, and Luke and Clary track down Jace and Valentine. Luke and his werewolf pack raid Valentine's lair, but they are ambushed.

During the attack, Luke and Clary get inside, and while Luke is distracted, Clary finds Valentine and Jace. Valentine reveals that he is also Jace's father, making them siblings. Luke then returns to fight Valentine, with Jace's help, but Valentine escapes to Idris, where he has hidden the Cup. Clary retrieves her mother, who is in a coma, and takes her to a hospital. In the meantime, Alec has been healed by Magnus Bane. Clary and Jace meet at the Institute and express their frustration that they cannot be together forever like they once believed.

Fall of Giants by Ken Follett

Ken Follett is one of my favorite authors, he makes history interesting and fun. The book Fall of Giants Follows five families through out the course of the twenty first century between 1911 through 1924. The first book covers notable events such as World War I, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women’s suffrage.

This is one book that I tell any one who loves to read that they must read, it is wonderfully written. I learned so much about this period in world history that I did not know, or realize.

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon book 3

Voyager, book three in the best-selling Outlander series, was written by Diana Gabaldon.

The storyline centers on a time-travelling 20th-century doctor (Claire Randall Fraser) and her 18th-century Scottish husband (Jamie Fraser), and is set in Scotland, France, and America.

The heroine of the bestselling Outlander, Claire, returns in Voyager as a mother to Brianna Ellen Randall and living in Boston in the year 1965. The preceding novel, Dragonfly in Amber, ended with Claire and Brianna coming to grips with the truth of the identity of Brianna's real father, Jamie Fraser, and Claire's travel through time. In Voyager, Claire and Brianna trace Jamie's life since the battle of Culloden during the Scottish Rising. Discovering Jamie survived the massacre that heralded the destruction of many clans in Scotland sends Claire back to the stone circle that first hurtled her through time - twenty years before.

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon book 2

Scotland, 1968
Dragonfly in Amber opens when Claire returns to Scotland with her twenty-year old daughter, Brianna, hoping to find what happened to the men of Lallybroch after the battle of Culloden. After discovering Jamie Fraser's gravestone in an abandoned churchyard, Claire ends up breaking the news of Brianna's true paternity to her and Roger Wakefield.

The story then flashes back in time (literally and figuratively) to when Claire and Jamie lived in Paris after leaving the abbey at the end of Outlander. As the story develops, we learn about Claire and Jamie Fraser's fight to stop the 1745 Jacobite rebellion and the bloody battle of Culloden - and also why Claire returned to the future.

Paris, 1744
At the end of Outlander, Claire convinced Jamie that they should do everything possible to stop the Jacobite Rising and the slaughter that would follow. After learning that Charles Stuart is trying to get money from the French King, Louis XV, they travel to Paris. In Paris, Jamie agrees to work with his cousin Jared, running his wine business and, since many of his French relatives are Jacobites and are well placed in society, secures meetings with Charles Edward Stuart (also known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) and many well-to-do members of the French aristocracy and bourgeoisie. So, while running Jared Fraser's wine business, Jamie and Claire begin to plot against the Bonnie Prince.

However, their lives are soon interrupted by the arrival of Jack Randall, who Jamie and Claire thought had died at Wentworth Prison. Jamie, despite promising Claire that he would spare Randall's life in order to spare Claire's previous husband, Frank, challenges Randall to a duel in the Bois de Boulogne. Though he doesn't kill the man, he does wound him and renders him impotent. And, after she witnesses the duel, Claire loses the child she was carrying and is taken away to l'Hôpital des Anges, where they believe she won't recover. Jamie is sent to the Bastille for the crime of dueling.

Scotland, 1745 and the Rising
After recovering from her illness, Claire manages to free Jamie from prison. A condition of his release is that they must leave France, so they sail to Scotland. (Fortunately, Jamie is pardoned for his crimes). Once in Scotland, Claire and Jamie settle in to farm life at Jamie's home at Lallybroch, with his sister, Jenny, and her family. However, Jamie receives a letter from Charles Stuart, announcing his attempt to retake the throne of Scotland. There is no escape, as Charles has had Jamie's name on the letter as one of his supporters. The Rising has begun.

Seeing no option but to fight for the Stuarts, Jamie gathers the men of Lallybroch to join the Stuart army. They fight and win at the battle of Prestonpans, but the tide soon turns against the Jacobites. The Rising culminates in the disastrous battle of Culloden. Jamie, knowing that the Scots won't win at Culloden, takes Claire and heads for Craig na Dun, where he forces her to travel back to her own time, to spare her the battle's aftermath. Before she goes, however, Jamie tells Claire that he knows she is pregnant again. After sending her through the stones, Jamie returns to Culloden, intending to die.

1968, again
The lengthy flashback ends and the reader learns that Brianna is the child Claire was carrying through the stones. Frank asked Claire where she had been during her absence but refused to believe her, thinking she was mentally unstable. Claire told him to leave her but suspecting he was sterile and desperate for a child, he asked Claire to allow him to be father to her baby and only tell Brianna the truth after his death. The novel ends with Roger informing Claire that Jamie didn't die at Culloden.

I cannot do these books justice so I went to Wikipedia for the book summary. They are fantastic book, and if you like historic fiction and romance these are the books for you. They are packed with anything that you could want from a novel.

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon book 1

During World War II, Claire Randall, a British Army nurse, and her husband Frank, an Oxford University History professor, work for MI6. In 1946, after the war ends, they visit Inverness, Scotland, the site of their wedding before the war. They combine their second honeymoon with research into his family history, investigating an ancestor named "Black Jack" Randall, a Captain in the British Army, in the first half of the 18th century.

During their holiday, her husband meets with another historian while she and an amateur botanist go plant-gathering near a group of standing stones on the hill of Craigh na Dun. Claire tells Frank of her visit to Craigh na Dun and, Frank's interest piqued by the historical and supposedly mystical powers of the stones, the two decide to visit the site again after seeing Loch Ness. When Frank learns that a group of local women, including the local vicar's housekeeper, will enact a pagan ritual there, he is all the more eager to go. Claire, a budding botanist, is particularly captivated by the flowers and herbs she finds, although the unusual ritual is also of interest to her. After getting up early, hiking to the stones, and watching the ritual concealed behind some bushes, Frank and Claire return to their hotel.
Claire returns the next day, intending to collect a plant specimen that she had seen the day before, but becomes disoriented and faints when investigating a buzzing noise near the stones. Waking to the sound of battle in the distance, Claire assumes it is a re-enactment or a movie set, taking a detour through woods that, though familiar, have changed somewhat from how she remembered them.

Struggling to make sense of her surroundings, she runs into a man claiming to be Captain "Black Jack" Randall, the very ancestor with whom Frank was so fascinated, who looks almost exactly like Claire's husband. Detaining her, he asks her why she is traveling alone in a "state of undress" and, receiving no answer from a vastly confused Claire, and concludes that she is either a prostitute or a spy. Retrieving her wits, Claire claims to be robbed Englishwoman lost in the countryside. She is saved from capture by a skeptical Randall by an unknown Scotsman who, knocks Captain Randall unconscious and takes her with him to he rejoins his party, a group to Scotsmen who are on the run from the red-coats after rustling cattle. Still confused, she doesn't understand the situation, her "re-enactment" theory dissipating, and is further puzzled by their reactions to her dress, which everyone calls a "shift" because her legs are bare.

Upon seeing that his companions were about to force the dislocated shoulder of one of the men back into place, an action that could have crippled him, Claire mends his dislocation using her nursing experience and 20th century medical knowledge. Claire meets several members of the Clan MacKenzie, and decides that their "costumes" and weapons are just too realistic. Concluding they cannot let her go for fear that she is an English spy, they force her to travel on horseback with them through the Scottish countryside. During a long ride, Claire shares a horse with the same young man whose arm she healed, Jamie. While the they ride, not seeing the lights of Inverness where she knows they must be and noting all the previous strange events, Claire reluctantly concludes that she may have traveled to the past.
The party of Scots return to their home, Castle Leoch, seat of the Clan MacKenzie. She is met with cordial wariness and, after being greeted and fed by the friendly cook, given a room for the night. There, caught by a fit of despair and exhaustion while tending his injuries, Claire collapses and sobs in Jamie's arms.

The next day, when questioned by the laird, crippled but cunning Colum mac Campbell MacKenzie, Claire claims she was sailing to France to visit relatives and lost her gown, luggage, and servant when they were attacked, an elaborated version of the same story she had told Captain Randall. The Scots are suspicious, believing her story to be a lie because of her lack of connections and evidence. Unable to prove her guilt but still wary of her true intentions, Colum treats her as a guest but forbids her from leaving Castle Leoch. Before she leaves his office, her fears of having traveled through time are proven when she sees a letter on Colum's desk dated 1743.

All the while, Claire desperately searches for a way to return to the Craigh na Dun, believing that if she returns to the standing stones she can also return to her own time and her husband, Frank. In Castle Leoch, The Scots see Claire as a "Sassenach", an Outlander, an outsider ignorant of Scottish Highland culture and one of the generally hated English as well. She does, however, earn their respect with her work as a healer, though some in the castle and neighboring village think her a witch. Wanting to learn the truth of her background, Dougal MacKenzie, brother of the laird and part of the party that found Claire, takes both her and Jamie on the yearly rent collection through the MacKenzie lands. This is a task Dougal performs as Colum's medical condition renders him unable to ride a horse or travel long distances unaided.

While on the tax collection trip, Claire realizes that Dougal is a Jacobite, a fact of which his brother Colum is not aware, and is using Jamie, who had been violently whipped by the English and bears the scars to prove it, to be a visual argument against English aggression and oppression. Along with the regular taxes, Dougal also collects donations towards the Jacobite cause. This is all overseen by the elderly but surprisingly lucid Ned Gowan, an English lawyer who is sympathetic to the Scottish cause. Also during the trip, Claire and Jamie begin to develop a tentative friendship.

Captain Jack Randall, learning that Claire is travelling with the MacKenzies and still unsure of her true nature, orders the clansmen to bring her to him. It is revealed that Randall is the one who had ordered Jamie to be whipped half to death and has a reputation for rather brutal questioning. After Claire arrives and tells him the same story as before, Randall ties her to a chair and attempts to beat the truth from her. Dougal, infuriated by Randall's methods, refuses to allow Randall to detain Claire for further questioning. He is informed by Ned Gowan that the only way to make Claire safe from Randall's power is to make her a legal Scotswoman by a witnessed and consummated marriage. Dougal tells her to wed Jamie, much to Claire's flustered anger. She argues heatedly with Dougal, insisting that she will not do it. Claire does, however, digress that she is not technically married, unable to tell him that she, impossibly, has a husband more than 200 years in the future. After much argument, she agrees to marry Jamie, resigned that it is the best route to safety and thinking him the most suitable candidate.

Claire then attempts to convince Jamie out of the marriage though he is surprisingly unfazed by the whole arrangement. She famously asks him whether it bothers him that she is not a virgin, to which he replies "'Well no... so long as it doesna bother you that I am'" and that "'One of [them] should know what they're doing.'"
Much to her surprise, Jamie makes an effort to make her wedding day as pleasant as possible, procuring a gown for her to wear and dressing in full clan tartan for the occasion. He even insists on being married by a priest in a chapel, though it is, much to Claire's horror, the same one in which she and Frank had/will have been married in. Claire, though terrified, is touched at his kindness and the two marry. Later that night, the two overcome their mutual nerves and consummate their marriage, a process Claire finds more pleasant than she had expected.

Claire and Jamie grow closer through the course of their travels with Dougal and the other MacKenzies. Claire, torn between her newfound attraction and attachment to Jamie and the thought of Frank back in her own time, escapes from the Scottish party and attempts make her own way back to Craigh na Dun. Nearly drowning when she falls into a stream, she is rescued by an English patrol only to brought back to the fort where Jack Randall is residing. Claire is saved from rape at the hands of Randall by Jamie, who sneaks into the English fortress to save her. The two return to the party of Scotsmen who, all furious at her actions, refuse to have any contact with her.

Jamie reveals to Claire that his rescue mission was firmly opposed by
Claire's healing skills as a 20th century nurse save Jamie repeatedly but as the story progresses, she is determined to return to the stone circle and Frank, knowing he must be worried sick. As life continues at Castle Leoch, Claire's marriage to Jamie, ignorance of local superstition, and jealousy towards her lead to a charge of witchcraft. Thrown into a hole with another accused witch, Geilie Duncan, to await trial, she is rescued by Jamie. Just before her escape, she realizes that Geilie Duncan is from the future too. When Jamie asks her to explain, she initially tells him she can't as he won't believe her, saying it's easier to call her a witch.
Shocked by Claire's explanation, he takes her to the stone circle and tells her to return to Frank - seeing for himself, that Claire is telling the truth about the stones. Jamie leaves her there to decide if she wants to return to Frank or stay with him. He is over the moon with her decision to stay and he takes her to his home, Lallybroch, but their happiness doesn't last.

Jamie has a price on his head and is betrayed by Ronald McNab, one of his tenants. Angry that Jamie, after being told by Claire and Grannie McNab of Ronald's abuse of the child, insists Rabbie become a stable-boy at Lallybroch. Jamie is held at Wentworth Prison and sentenced to hang. Sadistic Jack Randall is also at Wentworth and takes the opportunity to torture Jamie. Jamie, however, promises Jack that he'll sleep with him if he lets Claire go. Jack agrees and in revenge, Claire tells Jack she is a witch, cursing him with the "gift" of knowledge that he will marry and have a son but will die before the child's born, giving him the date of his death.
Aided by Sir Marcus MacRannoch, a former suitor of Jamie's mother, Ellen MacKenzie Fraser, Claire, Jamie's relatives and men employed by Sir Marcus, rescue Jamie. She patches him up and they escape to Ste. Anne de Beaupre's monastery in France, where Jamie's uncle is stationed as Abbot. At Ste. Anne's, Claire tries healing Jamie, but discovers broken bones are simple, compared to repairing the damage done to his mind. As he recovers, Jamie tells Claire that his life is hers, that she should decide, will they go "to France, Italy, or even back to Scotland?" for "[they'll] need a place to go, soon."

Whilst at the abbey, Claire learns more about her faith - she was christened Catholic but not raised as one - and receives absolution from a friendly monk. He describes her as a shipwrecked traveller, forced to survive in a strange land as best she can. He describes her marriages as something she should leave in God's hands as nothing can be done about them. At the last, as she and Jaime emerge from the healing waters of a sacred hot spring under the Abbey, Claire reveals that she is pregnant with their first child

Three Quarters Dead by Richard Peck

Young Kerry is a Freshman in high school and sits and the end of the table by the cool girls. She doesn't think that they will ever notice her and then one day they do. Finally she finds her self in the "IN" crowd, she is finally in on the joke and sitting at the right table. But at what cost? Will she lose her self trying to fit in.

Tonya and Natalie are seniors and Mackenzie is a sophomore. As Kerry starts to hang out with these girls and spending time with them, she finds that there is no length that they wont go to, to get what they want.

Getting ready for prom the three girls head out to find dresses, but kerry's mother wont let her go with them. There is a tragic accident and the three girls don't make, or do they?

This books will leave you guessing at every turn of the page. It is a haunting and terrifying ghost story.

Live to Tell by Lisa Gardner

The On a warm summer night in a Boston neighborhood, Four members of a family were brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now lies clinging to life in the ICU.Was this a Murder-suicide, Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye.

Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse who has dedicated her life to helping children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she is haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. The anniversary of her families murders is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and her partner show up at the facility, Daniel realizes: It has started again.

Devoted mother, Victoria Oliver has a hard time remembering what normalcy is like. She will do what ever it takes to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. She will love him no matter what. Nurture him. Keep him safe. Protect him. Even when the threat comes from within her own house.

I loved this book, It was thrilling and intense and brilliantly written. If you love to read Thriller suspense novels Lisa Gardner is the author for you. Her books can be a bit twisted but I LOVE her.