Author Talk With Cassandra Clare: Bestselling Author of "The Mortal Instruments" Series

Presented on: Wednesday, August 23rd at 7:00 PM CDT



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Join us for an exciting evening online as we chat with mega-bestselling author, Cassandra Clare, about her newest and final book in "The Last Hours" series, "Chain of Thorns."

In "Chain of Gold," the first book of "The Last Hours" series, the readers meet Shadowhunter Cordelia Carstairs, a warrior trained since childhood to battle demons. When her father is accused of a terrible crime, she and her brother travel to London in hopes of preventing the family’s ruin. Soon Cordelia encounters childhood friends James and Lucie Herondale and is drawn into their world of glittering ballrooms, secret assignations, and supernatural salons, where vampires and warlocks mingle with mermaids and magicians.

In "Chain of Iron," the second book in the series, Cordelia and her band of friends must follow the trail of the knife-wielding killer through the city’s most dangerous streets. All the while, each is keeping a shocking secret.

In the third and final installment in the series, "Chain of Thorns," Cordelia has lost everything that matters to her. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter. After fleeing to Paris, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.

About the Author: Cassandra Clare was born to American parents in Tehran, Iran and spent much of her childhood traveling the world with her family, including one trek through the Himalayas as a toddler where she spent a month living in her father’s backpack. She lived in France, England and Switzerland before she was ten years old.

After college, Cassie lived in Los Angeles and New York where she worked at various entertainment magazines and even some rather suspect tabloids where she reported on Brad and Angelina’s world travels and Britney Spears’ wardrobe malfunctions. She started working on her YA novel, "The City of Bones", in 2004, inspired by the urban landscape of Manhattan, her favorite city. She turned to writing fantasy fiction full time in 2006. Her first book was a New York Times and USA Today best-seller as were the rest of "The Mortal Instruments" series, "The Infernal Devices" series and "The Last Hours" series


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