title: Disingenuous Shadows
author: Sakinah Dover
description: Sakinah Dover, currently a NYS certified Special Education teacher, has a Master's degree in General and Special Education. She enjoys traveling and spending time with her family and friends. She and her family reside in Jamaica, NY. This is her first published book and she hopes to publish more in the future.
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  Contents
  
  
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  [Epigraph](part0004.html#Shadows-2)
  
  
  [Nothing but Shadows](part0005.html#Shadows-3)
  
  
  [About the Authors](part0012.html)
  
  
  [Copyright](part0013.html#Shadows-1)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  I knew nothing but shadows, and I thought them to be real.
  
  
  —Oscar Wilde
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Shadowhunter Academy, 2008
  
  
  The afternoon sunlight was streaming warm through the arrow-slit windows of
  their classroom, painting the gray stone walls yellow. The elites and the
  dregs alike were sleepy from a long morning of training with Scarsbury, and
  Catarina Loss was giving them a history lesson. History applied to both the
  elites and the dregs, so they could all learn of the glory of the
  Shadowhunters and aspire to be a part of that glory. In this class, Simon
  thought, none of them seemed that different from each other—not that they were
  all