Julian acts strong for Tiberius in new ‘Lady Midnight’ snippet

To celebrate the newly released cover of Cassandra Clare’s upcoming novel Lady Midnight, which is the first book in her The Dark Artifices trilogy, Cassie shared a snippet that features Tiberius and Julian Blackthorn:

I hope you guys have seen the cover and you love it like I do. If not, just scroll down my tumblr.

As requested, a snippet from LM to go with the cover reveal. Brotherly love is not such a simple thing..

Ty lifted his face. He’d always had delicate features, more elfin than Helen or Mark’s. His father had said he was a throwback to earlier generations of Blackthorns, and he looked not unlike some of the family portraits in the dining room they rarely used, slender Victorian men in tailored clothes with porcelain faces and black, curling hair and names like Jesse and Rupert. “Then what is it?”

Julian hesitated. The whole house was still. He could hear the faint crackle of the computer on the other side of the door.

He had thought about asking Ty to look into the poison. But that would require him to say,  I should be dead. The words wouldn’t come. They were like a dam, and behind them were so many other words: I’m not sure about anything. I hate being in charge. I hate making the decisions. I’m terrified you’ll all learn to hate me. I’m terrified of losing you. I’m terrified of losing Mark. I’m terrified of losing Emma. I want someone to take over. I’m not as strong as you think. The things I want are wrong and broken things to want.

He knew he could say none of this. The façade he showed them, his children, had to be perfect: a crack in him would be like a crack in the world to them.

“You know I love you,” he said, instead, and Ty looked up at him, startled, meeting his gaze for a flicker of a moment.

Oh, Jules! We want to hug him and make his pain go away.

Lady Midnight will be published in 150 days (March 8, 2016)!