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\nChapter 5  \nChapter 6  \nChapter 7  \nChapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nChapter 10  \nChapter 11  \nChapter 12  \nChapter 13  \nChapter 14  \nChapter 15  \nChapter 16  \nChapter 17  \nChapter 18  \nChapter 19  \nChapter 20  \nBook Two Chapter 21  \nChapter 22  \nChapter 23  \nChapter 24  \nChapter 25  \nChapter 26  \nChapter 27  \nChapter 28  \nChapter 29  \nChapter 30 Epilogue  \nAcknowledgments Copyright  \nFor Cassandra Clare, who was finally lured into Faerieland  \nOn a drowsy Sunday afternoon, a man in a long dark coat hesitated in front of a house on a tree-lined street. He hadn’t parked a car, nor had he come by taxi. No neighbor had seen him strolling along the sidewalk. He simply appeared, as if stepping between one shadow and the next.  \nThe man walked to the door and lifted his fist to knock.  \nInside the house, Jude sat on the living room rug and ate fish sticks, soggy from the microwave and dragged through a sludge of ketchup. Her twin sister, Taryn, napped on the couch, curled around a blanket, thumb in her fruit-punch-stained mouth. And on the other end of the sofa, their older sister, Vivienne, stared at the television screen, her eerie, split-pupiled gaze fixed on the cartoon mouse as it ran from the cartoon cat. She laughed when it seemed as if the mouse was about to get eaten.  \nVivi was different from other big sisters, but since seven-year-old Jude and Taryn were identical, with the same shaggy brown hair and heartshaped faces, they were different, too. Vivi’s eyes and the lightly furred points of her ears were, to Jude, not so much more strange than being the mirror version of another person.  \nAnd if sometimes she noticed the way the neighborhood kids avoided Vivi or the way their parents talked about her in low, worried voices, Jude  \ndidn’t think it was anything important. Grown-ups were always worried, always whispering.  \nTaryn yawned and stretched, pressing her cheek against Vivi’s knee.  \nOutside, the sun was shining, scorching the asphalt of driveways. Lawn mower engines whirred, and children splashed in backyard pools. Dad was in the outbuilding, where he had a forge. Mom was in the kitchen cooking hamburgers. Everything was boring. Everything was fine.  \nWhen the knock came, Jude hopped up to answer it. She hoped it might be one of the girls from across the street, wanting to play video games or inviting her for an after-dinner swim.  \nThe tall man stood on their mat, glaring down at her. He wore a brown leather duster despite the heat. His shoes were shod with silver, and they rang hollowly as he stepped over the threshold. Jude looked up into his shadowed face and shivered.  \n“Mom,” she yelled.“Mooooooooom. Someone’s here.”  \nHer mother came from the kitchen, wiping wet hands on her jeans. When she saw the man, she went pale.“Go to your room,” she told Jude in a scary voice.“Now!”  \n“Whose child is that?” the man asked, pointing at her. His voice was oddly accented.“Yours? His?”  \n“No one’s.” Mom didn’t even look in Jude’s direction.“She’s no one’s child.”  \nThat wasn’t right. Jude and Taryn looked just like their dad. Everyone said so. She took a few steps toward the stairs but didn’t want to be alone in her room. Vivi, Jude thought. Vivi will know who the tall man is. Vivi will know what to do.  \nBut Jude couldn’t seem to make herself move any farther.  \n“I’ve seen many impossible things,” the man said.“I have seen the acorn before the oak. I have seen the spark before the flame. But never have I seen such as this: A dead woman living. A child born from nothing.”  \nMom seemed at a loss for words. Her body was vibrating with tension. Jude wanted to take her hand and squeeze it, but she didn’t dare.“I doubted Balekin when he told me I’d find you here,” said the man, his voice softening.“The bones of an earthly woman and her unborn child in the burned remains of my estate were convincing. 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