Blood and Ruin

Raised by Valentine Morgenstern in complete isolation from the Clave, Clary Morgenstern is a Shadowhunter in name, but her world has been shaped by a father who sees her as both a weapon and an heir to his cause.

When Valentine sends Clary to New York for the first time under the pretense of "understanding the world she will one day change," she believes she is finally getting the freedom she's always craved. What she doesn't expect is the chaos of the Institute-the camaraderie, the warmth, and most of all, Jace Herondale.

Jace is golden, brilliant, reckless-the very thing Valentine always warned her against. But as she fights alongside him and the Lightwoods, Clary begins to realize that the world is not as black and white as her father made it seem. The Downworlders she was taught to despise are nothing like the monsters she imagined. The Clave, while flawed, is not the enemy.

And then she learns the truth.

Valentine never sent her here to learn.

He sent her here to burn it all down.