Clary has always been in New York. With her mother and her brother Jonathan, their father died in a war shortly after Clary was born. Her brother's Parabtai, Jace, Is one of her best friends. Jace lives at the institute with Isabelle, Alec, and Max Lightwood. As the gang becomes closer and they become more experienced in there profession, they realize a new evil is stirring. Or at least has been ever since Valentine was killed. They must destroy this force before it destroys them and their world.
Clarissa 'Clary' Morgenstern and Isabelle 'Izzy' Lightwood are parabatai. They've grown up together, had each other's backs since forever. Then, everything changes when Clary's father, Valentine, is murdered. Clary, along with her mother and brother, come to live with her parabatai at the New York Institute. With the downworlder population on the brink of war and Valentine's murderer lurking in the shadows the girls' parabatai bond will be put to the test. Can it survive? Or will it come crumbling down like everything else in Clary's life?
A Shadowhunter AU if the Circle wasn't evil and if Simon wasn't in the picture (or at least the nerdy Simon we all know and love).