What would you give up to protect those you love?
Alec Lightwood knows what his life is going to look like, mostly. He has two paths: either obey his parents, become a lawyer and marry a woman, or rebel, become a writer, and get kicked out of the family.
But life, instead of simply throwing a wrench in his plans, empties the entire toolbox into them, and he finds himself facing a hidden path, one he didn't know existed.
He walks down it anyway.