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A deadbeat coder with a savage sense of humor, twenty-four-year-old Seven Jones has been bumming around Europe since high school, stringing together freelance web work. When a bad breakup derails her life, she's forced to return to community college in San Diego to pull it back together. The last thing she expects to find there is an underground magic club.
Skeptical, Seven joins the motley crew of magic weirdos and discovers a complex hidden world, where magic is wielded by artists and athletes, and only the most committed and passionate succeed. Without an artistic or passionate bone in her body, Seven struggles to find her own power...until she figures out how to channel it through an artificially intelligent assistant.
Unfortunately, there is nothing the magical community hates more than AI, and when a student mysteriously turns up dead, blame falls on Seven. But Seven isn't buying it. Is her "creepy artificial magic" really summoning monsters, like her peers claim? Or is someone trying to frame her?
With only one person - Logan - on her side, Seven fights terrifying creatures from all sorts of mythologies, while struggling to convince everyone that her AI has nothing to do with them.
But how can she convince her peers when she isn't totally convinced herself?
Fans of Emily Tesh, Seanan McGuire, and V.E. Schwab's Extraordinary will delight in this bawdy satire about AI, tech fascism, and the magic that makes us human.
