AustLit

'Be careful what you wish for. It might come with an expiration date...

'Josie's well-meaning friends just don't get it. It's not that she's overjoyed to be thirty-two and celibate since her boyfriend dumped her. She'd love to settle down, but she refuses to settle for just any man. After all, better single than a sucker. Nevertheless, she humors her friends and follows the instructions attached to the gift they've given her–a beautiful bottle from a new-age shop. Lick, and the perfect man will appear.

'It works. The naked man she finds tied to her bed is everything she's ever wished for. Except Mr. Perfect comes with a time limit.

'Kede is tired of living life by the hourglass. Once, fulfilling the desires of the women who freed him was enough, but now it's just another job. Josie is different, though. She sees him as a real man–a man she wants for all time.

'Kede wants more than a moment. He wants a chance at life outside the bottle, and he wants a life with Josie. But he belongs to the goddess Inanna, and his time is running out...'