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Discover the Shadowhunter universe in this first volume of the acclaimed Mortal Instruments series and ""prepare to be addicted"" ( Entertainment Weekly )
"The New Queen of Fantasy" - The Wall Street Journal
Fifteen-year-old Clary Fray decides to spend the night at a New York nightclub. Her biggest problem would probably be dealing with the truculent bouncer at the door, right? Wrong. Clary witnesses a crime, and not just any crime: a murder committed by three teenagers covered in enigmatic tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. To top it all off, the victim's body vanishes into thin air.
Clary wants to call the police; she wants to scream; she wants to call her friend, Simon, who stayed at the club while she had the unfortunate idea of chasing the cute blue-haired boy... But how can she explain to them that no one else on the street sees the killers, only her? How can she prove a crime was committed if there's no trace of the dead boy's blood—and it was actually a boy?
But she doesn't even have time to make a decision; soon the assassins introduce themselves to the strange mundane woman who shouldn't see them, but does. Jace, Alec, and Isabelle are Shadowhunters, warriors whose mission is to protect the world as we know it from demons and other creatures. Vampires who go out of line, werewolves out of control, monsters full of venom? That's about it. And after this first encounter with the Shadow World, and with Jace—a Hunter with the appearance of an angel but a tongue as sharp as Lucifer—Clary's life will never be the same. Forever.
Dark, funny and sexy, City of Bones is the first volume in the series The Mortal Instruments , by Cassandra Clare, which became a true worldwide phenomenon and sold more than 50 million copies.
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