A Discovery of Witches meets The Atlas Six in Modern Divination by Isa 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 . . . 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 Isa Agajanian is a magical cosy fantasy with witches, featuring an academic rivals-to-lovers romance, found family and yearning. Praise for Modern Divination‘Lush and atmospheric, full of magic and yearning’ – Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six‘The cosy contemporary fantasy of my dreams’ – Ava Reid, New York Times bestselling author of A Study in Drowning‘A gem of a book’ – Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling author of The Foxglove King