Despite this, Emma manages to heal him quickly. Taking an invitation to the 'Lottery', Emma and Julian are attacked by a person whole in black and the latter is gravely injured. Ty's research about the mundane victim points them to the victim's girlfriend, who has committed suicide in her house. With Mark's help, Emma finds a cave which serves as a convergence point for the ley lines, managing to take evidences before being attacked by demons. Changed by his time in Faerie, Mark finds solace only in Cristina Rosales, a Shadowhunter from the Mexico City Institute currently staying in Los Angeles. They demand that the Shadowhunters solve the faeries' murders-secretly, because of the Cold Peace-or else they will take Mark back. One day, the Wild Hunt, a group of traveling faeries led by Gwyn ap Nudd, arrive to deliver Mark, the eldest Blackthorn brother, who was kidnapped by them during the Dark War. Diana Wrayburn occasionally helps the younger Shadowhunters with the upkeep of the Institute, but refuses to replace Arthur as leader and frequently leaves for other missions.

He gets the medication for Arthur's illness from Malcolm Fade, the High Warlock of Los Angeles.

Meanwhile, Julian struggles between running the Institute, since Arthur is functionally insane from his previous experiences in Faerie, and his love for Emma, despite parabatai being forbidden from pursuing a romantic relationship.

Ty's research points to the victims being killed inside sacred locations known as the ley lines as part of a dark ritual. Later, Emma also investigates a mundane murdered apparently by the same culprit who killed the faeries. According to Johnny Rook, a mundane shopkeeper from the Shadow Market, similar murders befell eleven faeries, whose kind are ostracized by the Clave under the Cold Peace for their support of the Endarkened. Having grown into a prodigious Shadowhunter, she is still investigating the true cause of her parents' demise, despite the Clave telling her that they were killed by the late Sebastian Morgenstern. Plot Įmma Carstairs has been living with the Blackthorn family: her parabatai, Julian his siblings Livvy, Ty, Dru, and Tavvy and their uncle, Arthur, in the Los Angeles Institute since her parents' deaths during the Dark War five years ago. The title was based upon Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe and all of the chapter titles are lines from the poem. The book follows the events that occur in the Los Angeles area in 2012, focusing on the residents of the Los Angeles Institute. It is the first book in The Dark Artifices, which is chronologically fourth in The Shadowhunter Chronicles. Lady Midnight is a young adult urban fantasy novel by Cassandra Clare.

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