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.
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