{snap, shatter, and howl, pt. i } When Sydney Herondale returns from a year of tour in Romania, she's a very, very different woman from the girl Matthew left behind at the Shadowhunter academy years ago: a new version of Sydney that he finds himself inexplicably falling for. But this is not as simple as it seems: demons attack in broad daylight, James's love life wreaks havoc on everyone else's emotions, and Matthew slowly begins to realize that the Sydney who returned from Romania may understand his own pain better than he thinks... Or, this time, there's someone to stop Matthew from spiraling.