Jerry A. Ziler

In New York City, Clary Fray, a seemingly ordinary teenager, learns that she is descended from a line of Shadowhunters — half-angel warriors who protect humanity from evil forces. After her mother disappears, Clary joins forces with a group of Shadowhunters and enters Downworld, an alternate realm filled with demons, vampires, and a host of other creatures. Clary and her companions must find and protect an ancient cup that holds the key to her mother's future.

When Jack learns his long-lost daughter was taken by a crime syndicate, he confronts his demons and wages a brutal fight to save her.

When his brother mysteriously disappears, Derek Lacey returns to his hometown to demand answers and face the family and people he left behind.

A disgruntled teenager, sent to do community service at a rundown Karate school, enters an MMA tournament to face the man who killed his parents.

Weighed down by his deadbeat father and unrelenting financial debts, Joss is forced to sink deeper into a criminal underworld to escape his burdens. As the line between his two lives thins, Joss frantically begins constructing an escape from his sins he commits before they swallow him whole.

Five interconnecting stories each told by a stranger at a bar all converge on the worst night of the year.

An ensemble of interconnected twentysomethings struggle with the complications of life, work, and love as they cross paths in the city throughout one day.