Magic exists, Josy sucks at it, and now her cat won't stop talking. Seventeen-year-old Josy Barrows thinks she's an orphan. So, when opportunity knocks in the form of an address and a plane ticket from a mystery aunt, Josy jumps at the chance to start a new life with her black cat, Nine. Fast forward. There's no aunt, no house... just a weird junk shop in a dark alley. And a strange owner with a cryptic message who hurries Josy to the back of the shop- Into a world she never knew existed. Josy finds herself enrolled at the hidden Spellcaster Academy...with a now talking cat. With no friends and no magical abilities, Josy can't stay at the academy if her hot, Enchantment 101 student-tutor, Aspen Rivers keeps refusing to help her pass. Just when things couldn't get worse, she may have discovered dark secrets about the academy... Secrets which could lead to a worse fate than expulsion... one that threatens both The Side of Magic and the regular world she grew up in.
