The Bane Chronicles by Cassandra Clare Hardcover Release

Best-selling author Cassandra Clare, author of The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices, released a new book today. The Bane Chronicles, which is a series of short stories co-written by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan, and Maureen Johnson, illuminates the life of the much-loved warlock Magnus Bane. The stories were originally released in e-book form, but are now available as a whole book on paperback. It is one of the books on my Christmas list this year. *nudges Mom; hint hint*

Below is a complete list of the stories in order:

What Really Happened in Peru 

The Runaway Queen 

Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale

The Midnight Heir 

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

Saving Raphael Santiago 

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

What To Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything 

The Last Stand of the New York Institute 

The Course of True Love [And First Dates] 

And here are the summaries of each story: 

What Really Happened in Peru: 

There are good reasons Peru is off-limits to Magnus Bane. Follow Magnus's Peruvian escapades as he drags fellow warlocks Ragnor Fell and Catarina Loss into trouble, learns several instruments (which he plays shockingly), dances (which he does shockingly) and disgraces his host nation by doing something unspeakable to the Nazca Lines.

The Runaway Queen 

Magnus Bane has a royal role in the French Revolution—if the angry mobs don't spoil his spells. 

While in France, immortal warlock Magnus Bane finds himself attempting to rescue the royal family from the horros of the French Revolution—after being roped into this mess by a most attractive count. Naturally, the daring escape calls for invisible air balloons... 

Vampires, Scones, and Edmund Herondale 

Magnus leverages his alliances with Downworlders and Shadowhunters on a venture to Victorian London. 

When Immortal warlock Magnus Bane attends the preliminary peace talks between the Shadowhunters and the Downworlders in Victorian London, he is charmed by two very different people: the vampire Camille Belcourt, and the young Shadowhunter, Edmund Herondale. Will winning hearts mean choosing sides? 

The Midnight Heir 

In Edwarian London, Magnus Bane discovers old friends and new enemies—including the son of his former comrade Will Herondale.

Magnus thought he would never return to London, but he is lured by a handsome offer from Tatiana Blackthorn, whose plans —involving her beautiful young ward — are far more sinister than Magnus even suspects. In London at the turn of the century, Magnus finds old friends, and meets a very surprising young man... the sixteen year-old James Herondale. 

The Rise of the Hotel Dumort

In 1920s Manhattan, Magnus Bane hobnobs with the elite at a glamorous Jazz Age hotspot. 

The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He's settled into New York society, and is thriving among the fashionable jazz set. And there is nowhere better to see and be seen than the glamorous Hotel Dumort, a glittering new addition to the Manhattan landscape. But a different type of glamour may be at play...

Saving Raphael Santiago 

A Manhattan teen—Raphael Santiago—is missing, and Magnus Bane must track him down before it's too late.

In 1950s New York City, a distraught mother hires Magnus Bane to find her missing son, Raphael. But even if he can be found, is Raphael beyond saving?

The Fall of the Hotel Dumort

Magnus Bane watches the once-glamorous Hotel Dumort become something else altogether in 1970s New York City.

Fifty years after the Jazz Age rise of the Hotel Dumort, immortal warlock Magnus Bane knows the Manhattan landmark is on the decline. The once-beautiful Hotel Dumort has fallen into a destroyed thing, a ruin, as dead as a place can be. But the vampires don't mind... 

What To Buy the Shadowhunter Who Has Everything

Magnus Bane may or not be dating Alec Lightwood, but he definitely needs to find him the perfect birthday present.

Set in the time between City of Ashes and City of Glass, warlock Magnus Bane is determined to find the best birthday present possible for Alec Lightwood, the Shadowhunter he may or may not be dating. And he's also got to deal with the demon he's conjured up for a very irritating client... 

The Last Stand of the New York Institute

Magnus meets Valentine in the battle as the Circle attacks the Downworlds of New York City. 

In the time of the Uprising, Valentine's Circle goes after Downworlders in New York.. and the Shadowhunters of the Institute must decide whether to join him, or fight with Magnus and his kind. This is the first time Magnus sees Jocelyn, Luke and Stephen—but not the last. It is not long before Jocelyn seeks him out. 

The Course of True Love [And First Dates]

Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood might fall in love — but first they have a first date.

Whe Magnus Bane, warlock, meetsAlec Lightwood, Shadowhunter, sparks fly. And what happens on their first date lights a flame...

All books in the Bane Chronicles are also available as audiobooks, and can be bought individually as E-books. Personally, I'm waiting until I can get the paperback book so I can add to my Cassandra Clare collection. I'm not sure if I will be able to fit the Dark Artifices and Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy AND The Last Hours with all the other books. I might have to get Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy on my E-reader, but I'm GOING to make TDA and TLH fit... Or at least I'll attempt to. 

Ugh. Cassie, I love your writing, but how many shadowhunter series are you going to write?! Not that I mind... as long as I never get to stop reading about Magnus... ;)