Lord of Shadows

Its place in The Dark Artifices

Lord of Shadows is book 2 in the The Dark Artifices series. It follows Lady Midnight. It is followed by Queen of Air and Darkness. See the full The Dark Artifices reading order.

Five years after the events of City of Heavenly Fire, Emma Carstairs is a Shadowhunter in Los Angeles still hunting her parents' killers, bound by an unbreakable parabatai oath to Julian Blackthorn -- a bond that makes the romantic feelings growing between them not just complicated but explicitly forbidden by Shadowhunter law. When a new string of murders echoes the pattern that killed Emma's parents, she and Julian's investigation drags the Los Angeles Institute into a conspiracy involving the Faerie courts and…