"whimsical romantic fantasy"
In Noxen, Pennsylvanian twenty-seven years old attorney
Ravine Patton raises her infant son Brady by herself; the
father Jake was a one night stand in remote Texas after a
bad day with a client. One day inside her Diaper Genie
she finds an odd bottle. When she touches the bottle,
Gene the genie appears. Gene is a bewitched Australian World War II pilot who has
waited six decades for someone to free him from the
bottle. Now if Ravine makes the three wishes he grants
her, he can go home. However, as she considers what she
wants, she watches the kind hearted Gene help her around
the house without a wish and especially play with her
child. As he begins to believe twenty-first century
Pennsylvania is home as that is where his heart is, she
begins to wish he would stay with them. If she uses the
wishes up, he literally goes home, which they assume is
1940s Australia (before she is born); if she fails to make
a wish, he remains a genie. This warm whimsical romantic fantasy stars an intelligent
female and a pragmatic kind hearted genie. Ravine and
Gene make the tale fun enabling readers to wish that the
caring hunk who called a bottle home for the past sixty
plus years is the type of person that we all fall in love
with. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted May 29, 2007
SummaryA sexy, whimsical debut featuring the hunky genie of one
single mom's dreams...
Back in her tiny hometown with a new baby to care for,
successful attorney Ravine Patton thought her life had gone
up in smoke. Then her Diaper Genie went haywire, and out
popped a handsome pilot who'd been trapped inside.
Gene—who, it turns out, is her genie—has granted
her three wishes.
Lucky Ravine now has the gorgeous hunk scrubbing her entire
house. But it isn't long before she starts falling for Gene,
which means big trouble. Because once her third wish is
fulfilled, he'll vanish from her life forever. And Ravine
realizes she's going to have to be very careful about what
she wishes for next.
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