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.
Lord of Shadows: The Dark Artifices 2 pdf by Cassandra Clare
Would you trade your soul mate for your soul?
A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love.
Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides?
Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile, rising tension between Shadowhunters and Downworlders has produced the Cohort, an extremist group of Shadowhunters dedicated to registering Downworlders and “unsuitable” Nephilim. They’ll do anything in their power to expose Julian’s secrets and take the Los Angeles Institute for their own.
When Downworlders turn against the Clave, a new threat rises in the form of the Lord of Shadows—the Unseelie King, who sends his greatest warriors to slaughter those with Blackthorn blood and seize the Black Volume. As dangers close in, Julian devises a risky scheme that depends on the cooperation of an unpredictable enemy. But success may come with a price he and Emma cannot even imagine, one that will bring with it a reckoning of blood that could have repercussions for everyone and everything they hold dear.