The soldiers kill two servants, but Tessa escapes to the sanctuary. Tessa and Nate are inside, and Nate quickly makes it clear that he has willingly handed Tessa over to Mortmain. One of the clockwork soldiers has Jem's blood on his hand, which allows him to open the door for other soldiers, who are led by Mortmain. The Institute is protected so that only someone with Shadowhunter blood can open the door. Will and Jem soon figure out that Mortmain's story was a ruse to get them out of the Institute. Will and another young Shadowhunter named Jem leave the Institute in an effort to stop the Dark Sisters. Black are creating the power for a clockwork army, hundreds of robotic soldiers who could wipe out the Shadowhunters. Mortmain arrives and tells Will that Mrs. Soon after he is well, most of the Shadowhunters leave for another battle with de Quincey and his clan. Nate recovers at the Institute for several days.

The Magister manipulates information that sends the Shadowhunters off to battle a vampire named Alexei de Quincey. Initially, the Shadowhunters believe that Mortmain has been only dabbling in the occult. They seek out a man named Mortmain, who had employed Nate upon Nate's arrival in England.

The Shadowhunters promise to help Tessa learn exactly what she is and the fate of her brother. Recovering from the horrors of her imprisonment, Tessa is very worried about Nate. Created by an angel, the group's mission is to keep the human world safe from the harmful forces. Soon after, Tessa learns that there are many evil and demonic forces in the world and the Shadowhunters are an elite fighting team. Their pursuit of the killer leads them to the home of Mrs. Will Herondale and his group of Shadowhunters live at the London Institute, and they are tracking a killer. Tessa learns she is being groomed to become the bride of the Magister, though she does not know anything about Magister. She can see and relive the moment of that person's death. By holding something that belongs to someone else, Tessa can become that person. Dark and Mrs Black teach her to harness a power she never knew she had before the women told her. Tessa sees no alternative and soon finds herself imprisoned by the two women. The two have a letter from Nate, saying she should go with them. However, instead of Nate, a strange man greets her at the dock and directs her to two women – Mrs. It is understandable that Tessa is hoping that her brother Nate will be there to meet her. Nate is the only family that Tessa has left. Her aunt has recently died, leaving Tessa penniless and alone. The book opens as Tessa Gray arrives in London aboard a ship.

Kindle AZW file.Ĭlockwork Angel, by Cassandra Clare, is the first novel in the author's trilogy, The Infernal Devices. Simon and Schuster, New York, New York, 2010. The following version of the book was used to create this study guide: Clare, Cassandra.

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