The Shadowhunter world is in tumoil;Valentine has murdered the Consul and Inquisitor while hundreds of Downworlders are massacred. Meanwhile the Enclaves are resisting, and a rebel group arises,The League of The Midnight Flower, making it their mission to save the captured Downworlders. Clary is threatened and forced to go against her values to save Jocelyn, awhile coping with Jace

Jace Herondale is assigned the murder case of Clarissa Fairchild. Each time Jace thinks he's getting closer to the killer, however, another suspect falls through. And as if he doesn't have enough on his plate, he realizes that he's falling in love with a dead girl! Everything changes, of course, when Clary comes back to her apartment one night...1940s AU

After a nasty break-up with her boyfriend, a run-in with the Milkshake Man, and several ridiculous hours spent in detention with perhaps the worst human being she's ever met: Jace Herondale-not to mention the divorce she's pretty sure her parents will get soon-Clary's senior year is sure to be filled with lots of craziness and stress. Love is most definitely not in her agenda.