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A magical and cozy fantasy with witches, featuring an academic rivals-to-lovers romance, found family, and yearning. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death Duology.

Twenty-three-year-old witch Aurelia Schwartz has always had to carefully balance her human life with her secret magical one. With a place at an elite Cambridge University college, she almost has everything she could possibly want within her grasp. Just so long as she follows the rules: Make no promises. Tell no one what you are. And never stay the night.

Except Aurelia's gift of green magic has begun to fade. Worse still, someone is hunting witches and stealing their powers. Reluctantly, Aurelia needs the help of fellow witch—and dreadfully arrogant classmate—Theodore Ingram. Together, they seek refuge among his family in the remote corners of an already-desolate town. But as she grows closer to Theodore, the power-hungry witch-killer, too, draws nearer. And they threaten to destroy everything Aurelia holds dear.

Dark academia with witches, Modern Divination is perfect for fans of Olivie Blake, Deborah Harkness, and Rebecca Ross.

Read the epic conclusion to Isa Agajanian's Spells for Life and Death Duology with Quiet Spells.

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Isa Agajanian (they/them) is a writer and illustrator in the United States. Raised in California and spirited away to Florida, then Oregon, Isa is never writing in one place for too long. They are joined in their pursuit of good stories by a hefty grey cat named Mosse and at least one roommate at a time. Modern Divination is their first published novel at the crux of a hundred unpublished stories.