Clockwork Angel (The Infernal Devices Book #1)

by Cassandra Clare
Lexile:  780
Genre:  Fantasy

Tessa Gray has grown up in an ordinary world with an ordinary life.  When her Aunt Harriet passed away, it was decided that Tessa would travel to England to live with her older brother, Nate.  But when she arrives, Nate has sent someone else in his place to meet her.  Tessa goes with the sisters thinking that they will take her to Nate.  However, she soon learns that the sisters are members of a secret society and that they have kidnapped her brother and now her.  They tell her that if she doesn't cooperate with their demands, her brother will be killed.  Tessa is about to learn that the normal life she thought she had was nothing more than a life filled with lies and half truths.  Tessa has no idea who she is or the power she now holds.

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