Catherine Graywind lives in the London Institution, where she has been for her entire life. Raised an orphan, she trained in the ways of the Nephilim with excruciating accuracy until she finally earned the rank of a shadowhunter. Always faithful, Catherine obeyed every order and fulfilled every promise. That is, however, until she meets a boy with hair like starlight and eyes as dark as the night. ••• "He catches her eye and it feels as if time slows around them. He's beautiful, but she knows loving him is forbidden."