Careful What You Wish For - Softcover

Finn displays promise and personality to spare in her debut novel, an Arabian Nights spin on contemporary comic romance. When unemployed attorney and single mom Ravina Patten uncorks a bottle she finds in her baby's Diaper Genie, it releases a real genie—more specifically, a hunky Australian WWII fighter pilot who's been bottled up for the past 60 years after a run-in with a cuckolded Bedouin—who must grant her three wishes in order to gain his freedom. Ravina finds life with the genie a dream: he's got the house cleaned, the meals prepared, the baby fed and Ravina's libido satisfied. Unfortunately, she's not so satisfied with the results of her first two wishes, and of course faces an ethical quandary over her last wish—will she use it to lift the genie's curse, allowing him to return to the life he left 60 years ago? Fans of high concept, multilayered fantasy-romance populated with quirky, comical characters will find this novel a charmer and Finn an author worth watching. (June)
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Cocky, handsome Aussie RAF pilot Gene O'Neill was shot down over North Africa in 1942. But after he seduced his host's concubine, he was transformed into a jinni and spent the next 60-plus years waiting for someone to release him from his bottle. So imagine exhausted new single mother Ravine's surprise when she opens the new Diaper Genie thoughtfully provided by her mother, to discover a real jinni^B materializing before her, prepared to grant her three wishes. But trouble is brewing in rural Noxen, Pennsylvania, and Ravine is involved. Gene, very much a man of his time, is protective of the woman he considers his, but Ravine shrugs off his concern until she realizes her family is in danger. Finn's paranormal romance provides fast-paced entertainment, and the various subplots involving nefarious attempts to gain control of large spreads of farmland, relatives with domestic troubles, and Ravine's mother's second-chance romance add depth and complexity to this new twist on Aladdin's lamp. Lynne Welch
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