“The Journalist” is Ninel Noir’s novel, the second book in the “Magic of the Big City” cycle, urban fantasy, detective fantasy, and adventure fantasy genres. They say there are no more magicians. They were exterminated root and branch in the Great Magical Turmoil. They destroyed each other, and the survivors were finished off by enraged people who were tired of endless wars. Humanity rose up—without the oppression of gifted monsters, progress moved forward by leaps and bounds. A naive provincial girl miraculously lands a job at the biggest publishing house in the capital. Will she manage to keep her secret? They say women-mages are executed by the crowd with special cruelty…