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Modern Divination (Spells for Life and Death #1)

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 . . .

Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian is a magical cozy fantasy with witches, featuring an academic rivals-to-lovers romance, found family and yearning.

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QuieT Spells (Spells for Life and Death #2)

More than half a year has passed since the disappearance of Gemma Eakley and Teddy Ingram still has no clue as to whether she is alive, dead or something worse. With Gemma's young daughter left in his care Teddy haunts the rural haven of Townsend like one of its many spirits.

But then Aurelia – his beloved ex-rival – returns with the news that her own mother is dead – and a ghost forms from the pages of her farewell to give the would-be lovers a message: They won’t let me rest.

One coven's efforts to reverse the looming extinction of witches involves resurrecting the dead. Meredith's old coven wants to know what secrets she took with her to the funeral pyre; did she have the key to fixing their botched attempts at necromancy?

From the acclaimed author of Modern Divination comes the dark and magical concluding part of the Spells for Life and Death duology.

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After a motorcycle accident took Liv Shankly's right arm and pushed her struggling family further into medical debt, the promise of a massive payout from a mysterious donor lures her back into an illicit street racing scene known as the Drone Runs. All she has to do is reach the end of the course without getting felled by one of the Run's four hijacked police drones, and she can return home with a cut of the winnings, where she lives with an overworked father and a chronically ill mother.

Except, she needs a benefactor to ride, and the only person willing to play the part is Vaughn Keaton, the reclusive, prodigious daughter of the oppressive High Mayor, whose only prerogative is to cheat her twin brother out of another foolish win.

But Caldwell Keaton, High Mayor-in-waiting and debauched playboy, plays dirty, and when Liv takes home money that was meant as an illegal payment for another wealthy family (as well as a few new injuries), the only person powerful enough to keep Liv from incurring his wrath is Vaughn.

Liv is dropped into a world of twisted family politics, corrupt science, and a tech-obsessed neon city that seems to want her dead. With a damaged metal arm and a target on her back, Liv agrees to work with Vaughn to create a revolutionary prosthetic, one with utilities and implications that could benefit not only Liv but the people she loves back home, too. However, technology that can change the world can also ruin it in the wrong hands, and Caldwell will do anything to take back what he has lost.

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Releases November 25, 2025

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