"His face is right in front of mine, his breath warm and delicious against my lips as he says, "'I can handle you.'" I simply duck under his arm and say, "'We shall see.'" Clary is trained for this, to be the perfect woman, and maybe the perfect wife. It's her job, what she was born into and what she has been raised to do. But CAN she do it? Futuristic Clary/Jace.

Clary Fray and Jace Wayland hated each other at first sight. It seems like he lives to make her life miserable. But when Jace is attacked and the police start to suspect Clary of being responsible (despite the fact that she played a part in saving his life), it becomes necessary to find the real culprit, and impossible for them to hate each other any longer.