the mortal instruments city of ashes book

When Valentine attacks the city and destroys the demon towers, Clary and her allies are all that stand between him and the total annihilation of all Shadowhunters. In book three, City of Glass, Clary has to use all her ingenuity and newfound magical skills to get herself to the Glass City in Idris, the secretive Shadowhunters' home country, where she is forbidden to go-for it is only there that she can find the cure to the enchanted sleeping sickness to which her mother has succumbed. Then Clary's best friend Simon is turned into a vampire and kidnapped by Valentine, who intends to sacrifice him as part of a bloody ritual that will make the Mortal Instruments Valentine's forever. For another, she and her newfound brother Jace have fallen under a cloud of suspicion now that the Shadowhunter world knows that Valentine is still alive-and that Jace and Clary are his son and daughter. For one thing, her mother is still in the hospital, in a mysterious coma. In the second novel, City of Ashes, Clary just wants her life to go back to normal-but that turns out to be impossible. How could a mere human survive such an attack?

And she's introduced with a vengeance when Clary's mother disappears and Clary herself is almost killed by a grotesque monster sent by the evil and powerful Shadowhunter, Valentine. In City of Bones, fifteen-year-old Clary Fray is introduced to the world of the Shadowhunters, a secret cadre of warriors dedicated to driving demons out of our world.

The mortal instruments city of ashes book