"Kai is my best friend. You're my brother. He's my soulmate. It's supposed to be simple." "You're a Shadowhunter. None of our lives are supposed to be simple." ... Eveline Carstairs isn't just a Shadowhunter. She's one of the Elites, Shadowhunters that are more prestigious and holy than the others. She's spent her entire childhood in Idris, killing her first demons on her own by age nine. But that life is behind her. She's going to New York, where she will spend a summer at the institute there. Now, she can walk down the street without being reminded of the past she badly wants to forget but can't outrun. If only things went the way they were planned.