The Genie and The Wishes

By Lee Savage

The Genie and The Wishes by Lee Savage

When a cataclysmic sandstorm tears open the desert, young Gonji discovers a buried city-and an obsidian bottle that hums with a power older than the stars. His village is dying, his people are thirsty, and the bottle promises what every story swears a genie must: wishes.

Gonji's first plea brings water and a harvest that turns famine into feast. But abundance stirs new rivalries, and his second wish seeks something rarer than rain: a shared wisdom that helps his elders foresee the consequences of their choices and hold the village together.

As foresight deepens, a darker past surfaces. Beneath the city's splendor lies a prison: a Djinn bound by a sorcerer whose brilliance masked a hunger to bend time and fate. Every blessing has been drawn from a captive star. Every miracle carries a debt.

To save his world from a power men once tried to master-and nearly unmade-Gonji must decide what kind of story his final wish will write: one of control, or one of balance. The choice will free more than a genie. It will redefine what it means to be strong.

Lush, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, The Genie and The Wishes is an intimate epic about stewardship over dominion, the cost of easy miracles, and the quiet, enduring magic of a people who learn to live in harmony with a harsh and beautiful land.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FS11CTSD
• ISBN13: 9798266463646
• Release Date: September 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 462 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"