Be careful what you wish for…

Ladden Sanderson is an antiques dealer in Sacramento, California with the ill fortune to have fallen in love with Jasmine Crowne, the governor’s girlfriend. But the most he has to offer the lovely interior designer is an antique rug for her latest job:  redecorating her boyfriend’s bedroom in the governor’s mansion. He thinks he might have found a great rug at the auction he just left. While he’s cleaning a copper lamp that came in a lot with the rug, an earthquake erupts, reducing his store to shambles. A homeless man appears with outlandish stories of being a genie and granting Ladden three wishes. Ladden sends him on his way, but bizarre things begin to happen—things that don’t exactly endear him to Jasmine—or her powerful boyfriend!

The “genie” appears and disappears at the oddest times…and then there’s the rug he bought that seems to move around on its own volition. By the time Ladden starts to think there could be something to this magic thing, he’s wished himself into a hole the size of the Grand Canyon! But he still has one wish left--should he wish for his own happiness, or Jasmine’s, even if her happiness means his heart will be broken? A riotous contemporary twist on a classic tale.

Reviews:
“Wondrous…Love mixes with laughter to create joyous reading for romance connoisseurs.” -- Romantic Times Book Reviews
“A wonderful rendition of the old magic lamp story.”  -- Affaire de Coeur
“A delicious fairy tale filled with warm, sweet, and desirable characters.”   -- Rendezvous