Lady Midnight - Dark Artifices, Bk 1 Author:Cassandra Clare In a secret world where half-angel warriors called Shadowhunters are sworn to fight demons, parabatai is a sacred word. A parabatai is your best friend and battle partner. Parabatai can be everything to each other -- but they can never fall in love. — Emma Carstairs ia a Shadowhunter, the best in her generation. Together with her parabatai, Julia... more »n Blackthorn, she patrols the streets of Loa Angeles, where faeries -- the most powerful of supranatural creatures -- teeter on the edge of open war with Shadowhunters. When bodies -- both faerie and human-turn up, bearing marks that match those found on Emma's own murdered parents, an uneasy alliance is formed. This is Emma's chance for revenge -- and Julian's chance to get back to his brother, a prisoner of the faerie Courts. All they have to do is solve the murders within two weeks... and before the murderer target them.« less