The Dark Artifices · Book 4

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall

Published
17 March 2026
Pages
320
ISBN-13
9781837841196
Type
companion

About this book

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall (March 2026, Daphne Press, 320 pages) is an illustrated, epistolary Shadowhunters story -- told through letters, diary entries and texts -- following Emma Carstairs and Julian Blackthorn as the Clave orders them to restore the crumbling Blackthorn Hall in Chiswick, London, or lose it, only to find a spectral presence already sharing the house. Illustrated by Cassandra Jean, it bridges the timeline between The Dark Artifices trilogy and the forthcoming Wicked Powers series, arriving after Queen of Air and Darkness as the most recent Dark Artifices-connected entry.

Key facts about Secrets of Blackthorn Hall

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall is a companion book by Cassandra Clare. Readers have had it since 17 March 2026. It runs to 320 pages.

Our list holds 1 edition of Secrets of Blackthorn Hall. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9781837841196 to find the main one.

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall is book 4 of 4 in The Dark Artifices series. The series has 4 published books. However, the series starts with Lady Midnight (2016). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.

Additionally, Cassandra Clare writes The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices and Magisterium, plus 4 more series. Those series sit on our fantasy shelf. Meanwhile, A Sea Change is the latest published Cassandra Clare book on file, from 28 April 2026.

About Cassandra Clare

Cassandra Clare built one of young-adult fantasy's largest ongoing universes almost by accident — she was writing entertainment journalism in New York before her 2007 debut, City of Bones, grew into The Mortal Instruments, the six-book series that introduced Shadowhunters: warriors who hunt demons in a modern world hiding in plain sight of angels, vampires and warlocks. See every Cassandra Clare book in order.

Its place in The Dark Artifices

Secrets of Blackthorn Hall is book 4 in the The Dark Artifices series. It follows 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…

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