Cassandra Clare is an American fantasy author best known for The Shadowhunter Chronicles, the interconnected young adult universe that began with City of Bones. Through series including The Mortal Instruments, The Infernal Devices, The Dark Artifices..., and The Last Hours, she built a multigenerational world of demon hunters, forbidden romance, family secrets, political conflict, and powerful bonds of friendship and loyalty. Clare’s fiction is known for fast dialogue, emotionally intense relationships, elaborate supernatural mythology, and recurring bloodlines whose choices echo across different eras. She has also moved beyond the Shadowhunter world with the adult fantasy Chronicles of Castellane, beginning with Sword Catcher. Readers return to Clare for immersive worlds, dramatic romance, ensemble casts, and stories where every generation inherits both love and unfinished danger.
