“Ash,” she breathed, rising to her feet. She wanted to hurl her arms around her son, but she held back. No one gave something for nothing in the Courts. “You bring my son to me,” she said. “And for that I thank you. But what do you wish in return?”
“A safe place for Ash to live. To remain with him as he grows up.”
“Both those wishes can be easily granted,” said the Queen. “Is there nothing else?”
“There is one more thing,” said the Jace that was not Jace, his golden eyes hard. “I want you to bring me Clary Fairchild.”
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Cassandra Clare is the author of the #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling Lady Midnight as well as the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments and Infernal Devices trilogy. She is the coauthor of The Bane Chronicles with Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson and Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson, and Robin Wasserman, as well as The Shadowhunter’s Codex, which she cowrote with her husband, Joshua Lewis. Her books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide and have been translated into more than thirty-five languages, a feature film, and a TV show, Shadowhunters, currently airing on Freeform. Cassandra lives in western Massachusetts. Visit her at CassandraClare.com. Learn more about the world of the Shadowhunters at shadowhunters.com.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Clare, Cassandra, author.
Title: Queen of air and darkness / Cassandra Clare.
Description: First edition. | New York : Margaret K. McElderry Books, 2018. |
Series: The dark artifices ; book three | Summary: While the Clave teeters on the brink of civil war, Julian and Emma take desperate measures to put their forbidden love aside and focus on saving the world of Shadowhunters before the parabatai curse destroys everyone.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018032682 (print) | LCCN 2018038515 (eBook) |
ISBN 9781442468436 (hardback) | ISBN 9781442468450 (eBook) |
Subjects: | CYAC: Supernatural—Fiction. | Magic—Fiction. |
Demonology—Fiction. | Blessing and cursing—Fiction.
Classification: LCC PZ7.C5265 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.C5265 Qu 2018 (print) | DDC [Fic]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018032682
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