Bargains and personal cost
Characters buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and may trade away a soul or heart.
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Cassandra Clare - Author
Sarah Rees Brennan - Author
This is a linked supernatural fantasy about secrets, bargains and loyalties in the Shadow Market. Its broad timespan brings together Jem’s search, recurring relationships and separate episodes involving romance, sin, war, souls, inheritance and ghosts.
**What secrets does the Shadow Market hold?** The Shadow Market is a meeting point for faeries, werewolves, warlocks, and vampires. There, the Downworlders buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and whisper secrets they do not want the Nephilim to know. Through two centuries, however, there has been a frequent visitor to the Shadow Market from the City of Bones, the very heart of the Shadowhunters' world. As a Silent Brother, Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of the laws and lore of the Nephilim. But once he was a Shadowhunter called Jem Carstairs, and his love, then and always, is the warlock Tessa Gray. And Jem is searching through the Shadow Markets, in many different cities over long years, for a relic from his past. Follow Jem and see, against the backdrop of the Shadow Market's dark dealings and festival, Anna Lightwood's doomed romance, Matthew Fairchild's great sin, and Tessa Gray as she is plunged into a world war. Valentine Morgenstern buys a soul at the Market and a young Jace Wayland's soul finds safe harbor. In the Market is hidden a lost heir and a beloved ghost, and no one can save you once you have traded away your heart. Not even Brother Zachariah. *Ghosts of the Shadow Market* takes place in the Shadowhunter world, the first book of which is *City of Bones*.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is a linked supernatural fantasy about secrets, bargains and loyalties in the Shadow Market. Its broad timespan brings together Jem’s search, recurring relationships and separate episodes involving romance, sin, war, souls, inheritance and ghosts.
Characters buy and sell magical objects, make dark bargains, and may trade away a soul or heart.
Jem searches for a relic connected to his past and enduring love; other stories include Anna Lightwood’s doomed romance and secrets kept from the Nephilim.
The Shadow Market’s participants conceal secrets from the Nephilim, while Brother Zachariah is a sworn keeper of Nephilim law and Tessa is plunged into a world war.
The emotional weight and treatment of these elements are not fully clear.
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