Spellcaster Academy: Magical Realism

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 Borealis Academy of Magical Arts...with a now talking cat.
With no friends and no magical abilities, Josy can't stay at the academy if her hot, Introduction to Spellcasting student-tutor, Aspen Rivers keeps refusing to help her pass.
Just when things couldn't get worse, she may have discovered dark secrets about her past...
Secrets which could lead to a worse fate than expulsion... ones that threatens both The Side of Magic and the regular world she grew up in.