Higher Magic

HIGHER MAGIC follows first-generation mage student, Dorothe Bartleby, as she faces down her second and final attempt to pass her program’s qualifying exams while juggling her own teaching responsibilities. When she realizes her students are disappearing, she must rally her friends, her sentient exam spell, & her cute classmate to set things right.

Courtney Floyd’s HIGHER MAGIC, a whimsical dark academia fantasy debut in which Bartleby, a mage candidate with anxiety, struggles to pass a crucial exam and inadvertently discovers a conspiracy to disappear students with accommodations from her university’s magic program, to Dina Davis at Mira Books, in a very nice deal, in a pre-empt, for publication Fall 2025, by Rebecca Matte at Bradford Literary Agency (World)