City of Bones by Cassandra Clare

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder - much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing - not even a smear of blood - to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

This is Clary's first meeting with the Shadowhunters, warriors dedicated to ridding the earth of demons. It's also her first encounter with Jace, a Shadowhunter who looks a little like an angel and acts a lot like a jerk. Within twenty-four hours Clary is pulled into Jace's world with a vengeance, when her mother disappears and Clary herself is attacked by a demon. But why would demons be interested in ordinary mundanes like Clary and her mother? And how did Clary suddenly get the Sight? The Shadowhunters would like to know.... 

 When I  first started reading this book i fell in love !!!  
As I learned about the world of Shadowhunters, I also was intrigued by the characters and discovered that world along with red-haired Clary whose mother had been kidnapped. Thrust into a world of strangers who were definitely not as they seemed and sharing some of that with her long time friend, Simon, she finds danger and intrigue. Blond golden eyed Jace irritates her but attracts her too. She realizes he and his "brother" and "sister" are the only link to finding her mother. This is a story of not only Shadowhunters but vampires, werewolves, faeries,warlocks and  demons.(vampires,werewolves,faeries and warlocks are Downworlders) It brought me to one of my favorite series I have ever read.

If I have a favorite book hero in all the books I have read, it is Jace. He is cocky and wild but with a past that haunts him....the beautiful dangerous golden boy warrior. The love story in this books is disturbing and the epitome of forbidden love. As everyone who has read these books always tells those first reading City of Bones.....just keep reading.