title: The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Prince
author:  Cassandra Clare 
description: Cassandra Clare vaulted onto the publishing scene with her first YA novel, City of Bones, and has published three other bestselling novels in The Mortal Instruments series. First published in August of 2010, Clockwork Angel marked the first installment of Cassandra's The Infernal Devices trilogy and debuted at #1 on the New York Times list.
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  ### Clockwork Prince [The Infernal Devices #2]/ Cassandra Clare
  
  
  
  
  
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  PROLOGUE The Outcast Dead
  
  
  The fog was thick, muffling sound and sight. Where it parted, Wil Herondale
  could see the street rising ahead of him, slick and wet and black with
  
  
  rain, and he could hear the voices of the dead.
  
  
  Not al Shadowhunters could hear ghosts, unless the ghosts chose to be heard,
  but Wil was one of those who could. As he approached the old
  
  
  cemetery, their voices rose in a ragged chorus—wails and pleading, cries and
  snarls. This was not a peaceful burial ground, but Wil knew that; it
  
  
  was not his first visit to the Cross Bones Graveyard near London Bridge. He
  did his best to block out the noises, hunching his shoulders so that his
  
  
  col ar covered his ears, head down, a fine mist of rain dampening his black
  hair.
  
  
  The entrance to the cemetery was halfway down the block: a pair of w