Clary is late to the portal and finds only Magnus Bane and Luke before that tell her the situation.

Clarissa Fray, by all just called Clary and her mother Jocelyn live in New York. The world as it Clary knows but is not as easy as she thinks. The reason for this is Shadow Hunter - make half human half angel hunt demons and other dark creatures. Just so a group of shadow hunters sees Clary for the first time in a disco where they will witness how a demon is killed. The curious thing here is that normal people can not see the shadow hunters.
Clary is unable to understand the importance of this fact, until her mother is kidnapped and they will target a demon attack shortly thereafter. Together with the shadow hunters Jace and siblings Alec and Isabelle, which initially have a negative attitude, Clary learns eisa awards 2011 of a past of her mother she did not consider possible. Jocelyn Fray was also a shadow hunter and worse, she was romantically involved with Valentine, eisa awards 2011 one of the rebels now opposes his former comrades.
Valentine wants the goblet of fire, ancient relic of the Archangel, which could give him immense power and Clarys mother eisa awards 2011 has hidden. Together with Simon, her "friend" who seems to feel more for her, Jace, Alec and Isabelle Clary wants to save her mother and learns on their way more and more about himself, the past of the Shadow Hunter and her family.
Clary's mother could be freed from the clutches of Valentines, eisa awards 2011 but is still in a coma. The Shadow Hunter eisa awards 2011 go further according to their work and destroy the shadow creatures. Also Clary tried to get back normalcy in their lives and spends a lot of time with Simon, the two come even closer. From Itris Maryse and Robert Lightwood come back, the parents of Alec and Isabelle and most responsible Shadowhunter in the institute.
Maryse eisa awards 2011 has reservations about Jace and his loyalty. She does not trust him because he let escape his father Valentine and thus they questioned eisa awards 2011 his loyalty to him. Since Jace however shows not just cooperative, the Council sends the Inquisitor to Jace with the sword of truth to consider. Any respect towards her vermissend, they condemned the Shadow Hunter to a daily penalty in the dungeons of the "Silent City" - a place of only apostates and criminals eisa awards 2011 is imposed.
In the middle of the night, the guardian of the dungeons, the silence Brotherhood are brutally executed by a fear demon, which is in Valentin's services and appear in person to take back the sword to enslave with the aid of a demon scratching and wrestle the Council thus ! What he needs is for it but the blood of four different creatures - beings of light, werewolf, vampire and warlock. But what role should play Jace and Clary as will be decided - with or against their father ...
After Clary's mother was rescued from captivity Valentines and Valentine himself is deposed by Idris, one seeks to awaken from their sleep for a way Jocelyn. This goal seems Idris himself, for there is the warlock Ragnor Fell have a Counterspell. Thus, Clary is looking forward to the trip to Alicante, the capital of Idris and the headquarters of the Shadow Hunter. eisa awards 2011 But Jace and Clary wants to break without organized a lie of the Simon the remaining members of the group should lie that Clary voluntarily not want to come. But in this conversation before the portal to Idris all be attacked by several Forsaken and to stay alive, to save them all to Alicante, the City of Glass.
Clary is late to the portal and finds only Magnus Bane and Luke before that tell her the situation. She is angry, angry that she was found abandoned and angry to save the wasted chance her mother. One way to Alicante would be impossible, since the portal from both sides must be activated, but Clary meets the road in the spirit and creates the impossible, a private path by Idris. Luke accompanies it, because he knows an unauthorized entry into the realm of the Shadow Hunter would not only be dangerous. Upon entering Idris both do not come in out of town, but end up in Lyn lake, that lake once the Archangel Raziel founded the Shadow Hunter from and who is considered eisa awards 2011 magical since. Clary suffered a fever and Luke brings them to his sister Amati to let it heal.
The other, Jace, Simon and the Lightwood family, eisa awards 2011 meanwhile, are already in Alicante. While the parents of Alec, Lissi and Max are already broken up the council to advise on Valentines further action, there is the rest with Sebastien Verlac and its cousin Aline. Simon is a vampire and thus illegally in Alicante, they want to bring him to the garrison, where a portal ex in the real world