Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare is a fantasy novelist whose connected series explore chosen identity, family secrets, friendship, love, and magic that always carries a cost. City of Bones introduces Clary Fray to the Shadowhunter world and makes the discovery of hidden family history inseparable from danger. City of Ashes deepens the conflict between loyalty and inheritance, while City of Glass brings the struggle to the Shadowhunters' own city. City of Lost Souls tests trust when a familiar character becomes difficult to reach, and City of Heavenly Fire expands the consequences across the wider community. Clockwork Angel opens an earlier generation in Victorian London, giving the universe a different social setting and a new central mystery. Clare's strongest device is the way personal revelations alter the rules of the fantasy world.