After Grace and before Cordelia, there was Brooklyn. Seventeen-year-old Brooklyn Mathis hated everything about her life in Los Angeles--from the pushy people to the smog. She'd always loved books, from classics to horror to fantasy, and they helped her escape. So one day, when Brooklyn woke up on an unfamiliar street in an unfamiliar city and an unfamiliar time, she didn't know what would come of it. She didn't expect to meet broken James Herondale, and she didn't expect to be pulled into a world she had only read about. A world that she thought was just a story. But then again, aren't all of the stories true?