The Magicists (Sample)

Seventy years after the brutal Mages' War led to an international ban on spells of any kind, magic has practically been erased from the world. Eighteen-year-old Clementine is one of the last magicists, researchers who study how to detect spells using purely scientific technology. Her biggest problems are scraping together research funding and making sure that she gets more credit than her rival Diane - until she discovers that magic may still exist on remote Jade Island.

All of a sudden, Clementine and Diane find themselves thrown together on a mission to track down these new spells and the people creating them. Halfway around the world from home, the unlikely partners struggle to work together, but when they do, what they learn will change them forever....