Pour Alec et Magnus, qui pensaient pouvoir profiter en paix de New York et de leur fils Max, la vie est loin d'être un long fleuve tranquille ! La faute aux deux sorciers qui n'ont rien trouvé de mieux à faire que de voler le puissant Livre Blanc. Bien décidé à le récupérer, le couple s'envole pour Shanghai, épicentre d'une attaque démoniaque sans précédent. Mais la magie de Magnus est plus instable que jamais après la terrible blessure reçue au cours d'un combat. Alec et Magnus auront besoin de l'aide de leurs plus fidèles amis pour venir à bout de cette menace... et revenir entiers auprès de leur fils.

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Cassandra Clare and Wesley Chu comes the second book in the Eldest Curses series and a thrilling adventure for High Warlock Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood, for whom a death-defying mission into the heart of evil is not just a job, it’s also a romantic getaway. The Lost Book of the White is a Shadowhunters novel. Life is good for Magnus Bane and Alec Lightwood. They’re living together in a fabulous loft, their warlock son, Max, has started learning to walk, and the streets of New York are peaceful and quiet—as peaceful and quiet as they ever are, anyway. Until the night that two old acquaintances break into Magnus’s apartment and steal the powerful Book of the White. Now Magnus and Alec will have to drop everything to get it back. They need to follow the thieves to Shanghai, they need to call some backup to accompany them, and they need a babysitter. Also, someone has stabbed Magnus with a strange magical weapon that is changing the very nature of his powers. Fortunately, their backup consists of Clary, Jace, Isabelle, and newly minted Shadowhunter Simon. In Shanghai, they learn that a much darker threat awaits them. Magnus’s magic is growing unstable, and if they can’t stop the demons flooding into the city, they might have to follow them all the way back to the source—to the very realm of the dead.