When Hildy Caldwell receives an invitation to her 10-year
high school reunion, she resolves to put her life in order.
Once voted the Girl Most Likely to Succeed, Hildy has never
gotten out of her hometown, and instead has become The Girl
Most Likely to Never Do Anything. She teaches English at
the same high school she attended and lives with her two
cats. Worse yet, her old boyfriend Mike has become a
successful businessman and is engaged to a super-model.
Michael Amante is the boy Hildy has never gotten over; the
man she still secretly loves. Spurred to action by the
invitation, Hildy decides to take the entire summer to plan
the rest of her life. A change of residence is her first
step, so she takes her savings and rents a summer house
near the Atlantic Ocean. When the school year ends, Hildy
packs up her cats and drives off in search of a new
beginning.
What Hildy finds on her summer sojourn is an antique amber
bottle with a genie inside. Antonius Eugenius was a Roman
soldier stationed in Judea. Cursed to spend eternity in the
bottle after getting frisky with one of Herod's women,
Antonius has been granting wishes to one "master" after
another for centuries. Antonius (Tony G) sees Hildy as his
way out of bondage. Tony is Hildy's good luck charm and in
return, he expects her to be his. Hildy is about to come
out of her 10-year hibernation and there was never a woman
more ready.
IF WISHING MADE IT SO couldn't be more fun -- a great summer
read. The "I wonder what ever happened to my old high
school boyfriend" is a great hook and Ms. Finn runs with
it. Tony is a bit different from what you'd expect from a
genie in a bottle story and the last chapter is a hoot.
Hildy Caldwell is lonely and loveless—so she splurges on a
summer rental on Long Beach Island, where she hopes the
wind might blow a handsome man her way. Instead, she finds
an abandoned bottle—with a 2000-year-old meddlesome genie
inside. Magic and mayhem follow, along with what Hildy’s
been wishing for: a meeting with the man she has never
stopped loving...
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