Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy

Simon Lewis has lost his memories. At the close of The Mortal Instruments, a greater demon takes them from him, and he sets out to get them back by becoming a Shadowhunter. He was once a mundane and later a vampire, and now he enrolls at the Shadowhunter Academy.

At the Academy Simon trains beside a class of new students and relearns the history he has lost. Guest lecturers, among them Jace Herondale and Tessa Gray, teach him the past of the Shadowhunters.

The book is a collection of ten novellas with Simon's schooling as the frame. Several of the stories leave the Academy and step back in time to follow earlier Shadowhunters, including Michael Wayland, Stephen Herondale and Robert Lightwood. Cassandra Clare wrote them with Sarah Rees Brennan, Maureen Johnson and Robin Wasserman.

The novellas first came out online, one a month through 2015, and were printed together in November 2016. Characters from The Mortal Instruments and The Infernal Devices turn up throughout, so the collection is aimed at readers who already know those series and want more time in their world.