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Et si tomber amoureuse était plus compliqué que de combattre les créatures des ténèbres ?

Cordélia a tout perdu. Son père a été tué, son projet de devenir parabatai avec sa meilleure amie Lucie a été réduit à néant, et ses plans de mariage avec James se sont effondrés. Pire encore, la voilà désormais liée à Lilith, démon surpuissant qui se nourrit de ses pouvoirs de Chasseuse d’Ombres.

La jeune femme part donc pour Paris en compagnie de Matthew Fairchild dans l’espoir d’échapper à son chagrin. Mais Tatiana Blackthorn s’est évadée de la Citadelle d’Adamant, et Belial, Prince des Enfers, menace la ville de Londres.

Bien décidée à protéger James, Cordélia est tiraillée entre son amour complexe pour ce dernier et la possibilité d’une vie nouvelle aux côtés de Matthew. Tandis que chacun tente de vaincre ses propres démons, il semblerait que tous devront affronter seul la tempête qui s’annonce.

Et si tomber amoureuse était plus compliqué que de combattre les créatures des ténèbres ?

Cordelia Carstairs a perdu tout ce qui comptait pour elle. En quelques semaines seulement, elle a vu son père assassiné, son projet de devenir parabatai avec sa meilleure amie détruit et son mariage s'effondrer sous ses yeux. Pire encore, elle est maintenant liée à un ancien démon, Lilith, qui la prive de son pouvoir de Shadowhunter.

Après avoir fui à Paris avec Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia espère oublier ses chagrins dans la vie nocturne étincelante de la ville. Mais la réalité s'impose lorsque des nouvelles choquantes lui parviennent : Tatiana Blackthorn s'est échappée de la Citadelle d'Adamant, et Londres est sous la nouvelle menace du Prince des Enfers, Belial.

Si Cordelia et ses amis veulent sauver leur ville et leurs familles, ils devront rassembler leur courage, ravaler leur fierté et se faire à nouveau confiance. Car s'ils échouent, ils pourront tout perdre, même leur âme.

Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.

After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s glittering nightlife. But reality intrudes when shocking news comes from home: Tatiana Blackthorn has escaped the Adamant Citadel, and London is under new threat by the Prince of Hell, Belial.

Cordelia returns to a London riven by chaos and dissent. The long-kept secret that Belial is James and Lucie’s grandfather has been revealed by an unexpected enemy, and the Herondales find themselves under suspicion of dealings with demons. Cordelia longs to protect James but is torn between a love for James she has long believed hopeless, and the possibility of a new life with Matthew. Nor can her friends help—ripped apart by their own secrets, they seem destined to face what is coming alone.

For time is short, and Belial’s plan is about to crash into the Shadowhunters of London like a deadly wave, one that will separate Cordelia, Lucie, and the Merry Thieves from help of any kind. Left alone in a shadowy London, they must face Belial’s deadly army. If Cordelia and her friends are going to save their city—and their families—they will have to muster their courage, swallow their pride, and trust one another again. For if they fail, they may lose everything—even their souls.

[Warning: Spoiler alert ahead for those that haven’t read The Infernal Devices trilogy] The Shadowhunters enter the Downton Abbey era in The Last Hours. Will Herondale is head of the London Institute, where he lives with his wife Tessa. But now it’s their children, James and Lucie, who take center stage, alongside their parabatai, Matthew Fairchild and Cordelia Carstairs. Their adventures will begin in Chain of Thorns, coming in 2017!

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Londres, 1903, de l’eau a coulé sous le pont Blackfriars depuis les événements qui ont secoué l’institut de Londres et la fin de la menace du Maître. Mais la vie des chasseurs n’est jamais vraiment paisible et c’est une nouvelle aventure palpitante qui les attend dans ce Londres en pleine révolution industrielle sous le règne du roi Edouard VII. Nous allons retrouver les enfants des personnages que vous avez adorés dans les origines, des adolescents dans la veine de leurs parents… James et Lucie, mais aussi Christopher et Grace, Cordelia, Alastair, Colin, Matthew, Charles et Jesse, autant de nom que nous allons apprendre à aimer et dont nous allons suivre les pérégrinations tumultueuses, tant sur le plan des sentiments que de l’action.

Quelques informations sur cette autre série sur les Shadowhunters:

Cassandra Clare posted today that the new title of her Shadowhunter trilogy had been leaked, but a huge wave of her fans were still excited to hear about the trilogy coming after The Dark Artifices.

The Last Hour is taken from Great Expectations and Clares says it will be a retelling with Will, Tessa, and Jem’s intermediate family:

You have been in every line I have ever read, since I first came here, the rough common boy whose poor heart you wounded even then. You have been in every prospect I have ever seen since — on the river, on the sails of the ships, on the marshes, in the clouds, in the light, in the darkness, in the wind, in the woods, in the sea, in the streets. You have been the embodiment of every graceful fancy that my mind has ever become acquainted with. The stones of which the strongest London buildings are made, are not more real, or more impossible to be displaced by your hands, than your presence and influence have been to me, there and everywhere, and will be. Estella, to the last hours of my life, you cannot choose but remain part of my character, part of the little good in me, part of the evil. — Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Cassandra Clare gives us a bit of insight into the books with a short synopsis:

“For as long as Lucie Herondale can remember, the Herondale family manor has adjourned the manor of the Blackthorns.

It’s too bad that Tatiana Blackthorn, the matriarch of the family, has always been, as her father Will Herondale says, “mad as a mouse trapped in a teapot.” Since the day that her father Benedict murdered Tatiana’s husband, and was killed in turn by a group of Shadowhunters that included both her brothers, Tatiana has nursed a burning grudge against the London Institute and all its inhabitants, especially Will, Tessa and their children: Lucie and her brother, James …”

And one of the most exciting bits it the title announcement (more Great Expectation references) for each three books which will be: Chain of Thorns, Chain of Gold, and Chain of Iron. Cassie also adds, “The books will interconnect with The Dark Artifices as the stories of the Blackthorns, Herondales and Carstairs, much like TMI and The Infernal Devices.”

“Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.” — Great Expectations

Publication dates have NOT been determined yet. Though The Dark Artifices will be be published first with Lady Midnight coming in a few short years. We will keep you updated as information come in!

Who’s excited to read more about Jem, Will, and Tessa?

Source:http://pagetopremiere.com/2014/02/cassandra-clares-new-shadowhunter-series-to-be-called-the-last-hours-more-info-here/