Cassandra Clare - Clockwork Prince (Infernal Devices #2)

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A never-before-seen letter from Will to his family.

THE INFERNAL DEVICES

Prequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series

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I n the magical underworld of Victorian London, Tessa Gray has at last found safety with the Shadowhunters. But that safety proves fleeting when rogue forces in the Clave plot to see her protector, Charlotte, replaced as head of the Institute. If Charlotte loses her position, Tessa will be out on the streetand easy prey for the mysterious Magister, who wants to use Tessas powers for his own dark ends.

With the help of handsome, self-destructive Will and the fiercely devoted Jem, Tessa discovers that the Magisters war on the Shadowhunters is deeply personal. He blames them for a long-ago tragedy that shattered his life. To unravel the secrets of the past, the trio journeys from mist-shrouded Yorkshire to a manor house that holds untold horrors, from the slums of London to an enchanted ballroom where Tessa discovers that the truth of her parentage is more sinister than she had imagined. When they encounter a clockwork demon bearing a warning for Will, they realize that the Magister knows their every moveand that one of their own has betrayed them.

Tessa finds her heart drawn more and more to Jem, though her longing for Will, despite his dark moods, continues to unsettle her. But something is changing in Willthe wall he has built around himself is crumbling. Could finding the Magister free Will from his secrets and give Tessa the answers about who she is and what she was born to do?

As their dangerous search for the Magister and the truth leads the friends into peril, Tessa learns that when love and lies are mixed, they can corrupt even the purest heart.

CASSANDRA CLARE

is the New York Times bestselling author of the Mortal Instruments series. She was born overseas and spent her early years traveling around the world with her family and several trunks of books. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts with her husband, their cats, and these days, even more books. Visit her online at cassandraclare.com.

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THE INFERNAL DEVICES

Book Two

Clockwork Prince

Also by Cassandra Clare

THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS:

City of Bones

City of Ashes

City of Glass

City of Fallen Angels

THE INFERNAL DEVICES:

Clockwork Angel

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Clare, Cassandra.

Clockwork prince / Cassandra Clare.1st ed.

p. cm.(The infernal devices ; bk. 2)

Summary: As the Council attempts to strip Charlotte of her power, sixteen-year-old orphaned shapechanger Tessa Gray works with the London Shadowhunters to find the Magister and destroy his clockwork army, learning the secret of her own identity while investigating his past.

ISBN 978-1-4169-7588-5 (hardcover)

ISBN 978-1-4424-3134-8 (eBook)

[1. SupernaturalFiction. 2. DemonologyFiction. 3. OrphansFiction. 4. Secret societiesFiction. 5. IdentityFiction. 6. London (England)History19th centuryFiction. 7. Great BritainHistoryVictoria, 18371901Fiction.] I. Title.

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For Elka

Khalepa ta kala

I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul.... Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard whispers from old voices impelling me upward, that I thought were silent for ever. I have had unformed ideas of striving afresh, beginning anew, shaking off sloth and sensuality, and fighting out the abandoned fight. A dream, all a dream, that ends in nothing....

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

THE INFERNAL DEVICES

Book Two

Clockwork Prince

The Outcast Dead

The fog was thick, muffling sound and sight. Where it parted, Will Herondale could see the street rising ahead of him, slick and wet and black with rain, and he could hear the voices of the dead.

Not all Shadowhunters could hear ghosts, unless the ghosts chose to be heard, but Will was one of those who could. As he approached the old cemetery, their voices rose in a ragged choruswails and pleading, cries and snarls. This was not a peaceful burial ground, but Will knew that; it was not his first visit to the Cross Bones Graveyard near London Bridge. He did his best to block out the noises, hunching his shoulders so that his collar covered his ears, head down, a fine mist of rain dampening his black hair.