First published 2013
Magnus Bane swore he was done with London. Then Tatiana Blackthorn makes him an offer he cannot easily refuse, and he finds himself back in the city he walked away from. The job looks straightforward on the surface. It is not. Tatiana's plans center on her ward, a beautiful young woman named Grace, and those plans are darker than Magnus reads at first. He starts pulling at threads he probably should leave alone. Then he runs into a sixteen-year-old boy named James Herondale, and that encounter stops him cold in a way Tatiana never could. James is unexpected in every sense, and Magnus cannot quite shake what meeting him stirs up. Two complications, one city, and a warlock who thought he had seen everything London could throw at him. This story sits inside the wider Shadowhunter Chronicles alongside The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices, Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy, The Bane Chronicles, and The Shadowhunter's Codex, and it plants seeds that grow directly into The Last Hours trilogy.
Genres: romance, fantasy, young-adult, paranormal, dark-fantasy, young-adult-fantasy
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, mysterious, romantic-tension, suspenseful
Tropes: forbidden-romance, found-family, slow-burn
Setting: London
Period: 19th-century
96 pages · Hardcover · Walker Books UK
Content warnings: death