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Modern Divination

Spells for Life and Death Duology, Book One

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Book 1 of Spells for Life and Death Duology

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Pub Date Apr 01 2025 | Archive Date Mar 27 2025


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A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for Life and Death Duology.

The colour of magic was gold...


Aurelia Schwartz has spent twenty-three years maintaining the equilibrium between her carefully curated human life and the magical one that she endures in secret. With a devoted best friend and a place at an elite Cambridge college, she has everything one could possibly want neatly within her grasp.


Except for the fact that her gift of green magic has begun to fade—and, if that isn't enough to upset the balance of her life, a fateful run-in with another power-hungry witch with a penchant for stealing magic has threatened to bring it all to ruin.


Cast into an unexpected alliance with her dreadfully arrogant classmate, Aurelia goes into hiding among a peculiar family of witches, where she discovers that the secret to their safety requires breaking rules she has followed all her life: Make no promises. Tell no one what you are. And never stay the night.


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

A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isabel Agajanian, a dark contemporary fantasy from a brilliant new talent. Modern Divination is the first book in the Spells for...


Advance Praise

"Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

"Stylish, moody, with an atmosphere thick enough to drown in, Modern Divination is the cosy contemporary fantasy of my dreams. I promise you, too, will be drawn in by its gorgeous and aching warmth." —Ava Reid, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning

"With high stakes, deft romance and intriguing magic, Modern Divination is a gem of a book." —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of The Foxglove King

"Cosy like a favourite sweater and thick with atmosphere like fog on a winter night, Modern Divination beautifully captures the romance of small intimacies, hard-won vulnerability and, of course, academic rivalry, Agajanian's debut had me under its spell from start to finish. Utterly magical." —Allison Saft, New York Times bestselling author of A Far Wilder Magic

"Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six

"Stylish, moody, with an atmosphere thick enough to drown in, Modern Divination...


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EDITION Hardcover
ISBN 9781035049981
PRICE CA$39.99 (CAD)
PAGES 512

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