Higher Magic

She always felt like an impostor… First-generation graduate student Dorothe Bartleby has one last chance to pass the Magic program’s qualifying exam. If she fails,she’ll be kicked out of the universitylosing access to higher magic and her chance to prove classic literature contained spells that rebuilt the world. Still reeling from the paralyzing anxiety that made her freeze on her first attemptshe’s horrified when her advisor insists she reframe her entire dissertation using Digimancy. Mages may have found a way to make computers and magic work togetherbut throw Bartleby into the mixand nothing ever goes right. This time is no exception. Her revised working goes horribly wrongcreating a talking skull named Anne that narrates Bartleby’s inner thoughts–even the most embarrassing ones–like she’s a heroine in a Jane Austen novel. Facing the scrutiny of her professorsincreasingly frequent panic attacks and the impending deadlineBartleby doubts whether she’s fit to become a mage at all. Out of her depthshe recruits Jamesan unfairly attractive mage candidatehoping he can help her correct the code and stop Anne’s glitches in time for her exam. InsteadAnne leads them to a shocking and dangerous discovery: Magic students who seek disability accommodations are disappearing–quite literally. When the administration fails to actBartleby must learn to trust in her knowledge and skills…and begin to rewrite her own story. Otherwiseshe risks losing both the missing students and her future as a magepermanently.