The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare

There might be no Shadowhunters here, but it was not as if all ordinary humans were totally accepting of such gestures either. Alec was sometimes self-conscious about public displays of affection. Magnus had the fleeting impulse to reach over and push his hair back, but he repressed the urge. A lock of his always-disheveled black hair was falling into his eyes. Runes flowed along the muscled strength of his arms, one rune already fading against his throat, just under the clean line of his jaw. And each time, Magnus snatched the card and wrote, with a flourish, Except not really.Īlec’s broad shoulders were hunched over their table as he wrote. He looked across the small table at Alec Lightwood, who was ignoring the glitter and glamour of Paris in order to write postcards to his family back home, and smiled.Įach time he finished a postcard, Alec wrote Wish you were here at the end. In his four hundred years of wandering the world, he had learned that wherever you traveled, it was the company that mattered. This time Magnus intended to get Paris right. Paris had also been the setting for many of Magnus’s most embarrassing mishaps and ill-conceived plots, and several romantic catastrophes, but the past did not matter now. Paris, city of boulevards and bohemians, of lovers and the Louvre. The stars twinkled as if they knew they had competition, the cobbled streets were narrow gold, and the Seine was a silver ribbon twined around a filigree box of bonbons. ExcerptĬhapter One: Collision in Paris CHAPTER ONE Collision in ParisįROM THE OBSERVATION DECK OF the eiffel tower, the city was spread at Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood’s feet like a gift. As their quest for answers becomes increasingly dire, Magnus and Alec will have to trust each other more than ever-even if it means revealing the secrets they’ve both been keeping. Demons are now dogging their every step, and it is becoming harder to tell friend from foe. Now Magnus and Alec must race across Europe to track down the Crimson Hand before the cult can cause any more damage.

A cult that was apparently founded by Magnus himself. But as soon as the pair settles in Paris, an old friend arrives with news about a demon-worshipping cult called the Crimson Hand that is bent on causing chaos around the world.

The Red Scrolls of Magic is a Shadowhunters novel.Īll Magnus Bane wanted was a vacation-a lavish trip across Europe with Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter who against all odds is finally his boyfriend. “ swashbuckling launch to the Eldest Curses series.” - Publishers Weeklyįrom #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller Cassandra Clare and award-winner Wesley Chu comes the first book in a new series full of “swoon-worthy romance abundant action” ( Publishers Weekly). “A rip-roaring adventure merged with satisfying romance.” - Entertainment Weekly

The Red Scrolls of Magic by Cassandra Clare