From Holly Black and Cassandra Clare comes the second installment in the New York Times bestselling series ― Now in Paperback!<br/>Callum Hunt’s summer break isn’t like other kids’. His closest companion is a Chaos-ridden wolf, Havoc. His father suspects him of being secretly evil. And, of course,most kids aren’t heading back to the magical world of the Magisterium in the fall.<br/>It’s not easy for Call . . . and it gets even harder after he checks out his basement and discovers that his dad might be trying to destroy both him and Havoc.<br/>Call escapes to the Magisterium ― but things only intensify there. The Alkahest ― copper gauntlet capable of separating certain magicians from their magic ― has been stolen. And in their search to discover the culprit, Call and his friends Aaron and Tamara awaken the attention of some very dangerous foes ― and get closer to an even more dangerous truth.<br/>As the mysteries of the Magisterium deepen and widen, bestselling authors Holly Black and Cassandra Clare take readers on an extraordinary journey through one boy’s conflict -- and a whole world’s fate.<br/>All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. Now that he’s entered the Magisterium, Call’s sure the school can only bring bad things. A place both sensational and sinister, the Magisterium has dark ties to his past ― and a twisty path to his future. A path that will forever change everything Call thought he knew about the worlds of good and evil.