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...'

'His only wish is to be free…

'For centuries Gage has existed only to fulfill the most intimate desires of the woman who holds his bottle. Now Gage has a wish of his own—to be a real man and a have a real life even though he knows it’s an impossible dream. This time he plans to take his bottle and break it just to see what will happen.

'Paramedic Sasha Watts has seen the damage falling in love does to people and she had no intention of being another of Cupid’s victims. She accidentally frees Gage without knowing what he is. After one kiss he walks away and she never expects to see him again, but the goddess Inanna has other ideas.

'As punishment for breaking his bottle she erases Gage’s memory of everything but Sasha. Only Sasha can give him the life he longs for and only Gage can be the man she’s always dreamed of, but first she’ll have to open her heart and he’ll have to finish the job Inanna gave him. If he fails, he’ll cease to exist.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

'Rebecca Thomas is determined to have the perfect holiday by herself. She knows how to plan the perfect wedding, so planning her ideal holiday isn’t hard. She goes to the Cook Islands to enjoy the sun, sand and surf and everything else Rarotonga has to offer. She never planned on having a holiday fling, but Ashur is hard to resist.