A Dark-Hunter named Dangereuse St.
A Dark-Hunter teams up with a sassy vampire fighter who is in danger.
The latest novel in the Dark-Hunter series, featuring demigods, vampires and immortal viking warriors.
"[Clare], in writing The Mortal Instruments and the Shadowhunters Series knowingly and wilfully copied the Dark-Hunter Series and original elements therein to create a work or works substantially similar to and derivative of the Dark-Hunter Series".
"These substantially similar elements, coupled with [Clare's] access to the Dark-Hunter Series, which were widely disseminated, leave little doubt that numerous substantive original elements of the Dark-Hunter Series have been copied by [Clare]," it says.
A half-tiger, half-leopard must fight to save a lonely socialite in this Dark-Hunter romance.
Kenyon's case, filed last week, claims that when her Dark-Hunter books are compared to Clare's Shadowhunter series, "in many respects, the elements are virtually identical".
According to the lawsuit, Kenyon "was alerted by some of her distressed fans" in 2006 about Clare's planned publication "of a work that incorporated [Kenyon's] Dark-Hunter Marks".
Kenyon asked for the Dark-Hunter references to be removed, the lawsuit says, and Clare did so, replacing it with the term "shadowhunter".
The Dark-Hunter series dates back to 1998, says the lawsuit; the first in Clare's Mortal Instruments and Shadowhunter series, City of Bones, was published in 2007.
It alleges copyright and trademark infringement, and claims that "in writing The Mortal Instruments and the Shadowhunters Series [Clare] knowingly and wilfully copied the Dark-Hunter Series and original elements therein to create a work or works substantially similar to and derivative of the Dark-Hunter Series".
