Born on July 27, 1973 in Tehran, Iran, Cassandra Clare is an American-Iranian-American novelist and teenage fiction writer. She is best known for authoring the Mortal Instruments fantasy series from 2007 until the final installments were released in 2014. Claire was born Judith Rumelt to American-born parents in Tehran, Iran. Her parents are Elizabeth and Richard Romelt. They served as professors at the Academy of Business Administration and as a writer, respectively.
Clare's maternal grandfather was film producer Max Rosenberg. Claire is Jewish, but she describes her family as non-religious.
As a child, Clare traveled frequently, spending time in Switzerland, England and France. She returned to Los Angeles in high school, and has since divided her time between California and New York City, working for various entertainment magazines and tabloids, including The Hollywood Reporter.
While living in Los Angeles, Claire embarked on writing fiction, using the name Cassandra Claire. The Drico Trilogy, inspired by Harry Potter and The Top Secret Diary, inspired by The Lord of the Rings, have become popular novels. Despite this, Claire deleted her fantasy novels from the Internet before publishing her first novel, City of Bones, under the name Cassandra Claire.
Claire currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with her husband, Joshua Lewis, and three cats.
Lady Midnight: The Dark Artifices 1 pdf by Cassandra Clare
The Shadowhunters of Los Angeles star in the first novel in Cassandra Clare’s newest series, The Dark Artifices, a sequel to the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series. Lady Midnight is a Shadowhunters novel.
It’s been five years since the events of City of Heavenly Fire that brought the Shadowhunters to the brink of oblivion. Emma Carstairs is no longer a child in mourning, but a young woman bent on discovering what killed her parents and avenging her losses.
Together with her parabatai Julian Blackthorn, Emma must learn to trust her head and her heart as she investigates a demonic plot that stretches across Los Angeles, from the Sunset Strip to the enchanted sea that pounds the beaches of Santa Monica. If only her heart didn’t lead her in treacherous directions…
Making things even more complicated, Julian’s brother Mark—who was captured by the faeries five years ago—has been returned as a bargaining chip. The faeries are desperate to find out who is murdering their kind—and they need the Shadowhunters’ help to do it. But time works differently in faerie, so Mark has barely aged and doesn’t recognize his family. Can he ever truly return to them? Will the faeries really allow it?
Glitz, glamours, and Shadowhunters abound in this heartrending opening to Cassandra Clare’s Dark Artifices series.