One bottle. Unlimited wishes. And a serious craving for pepperoni pizza.

Eli Thorne was having a typical Tuesday. He was late for his structural engineering midterm, he was under-caffeinated, and his mom was threatening to turn his bedroom into a yoga studio. Then, a wizard from the year 525 AD kidnapped him, turned him into a magical battery, and stuffed him into a glass bottle for fifteen centuries.

When Clara Vance, an underpaid museum archivist, discovers a glowing green bottle in a box of "junk" artifacts, she expects dust. Instead, she gets Eli— a 22-year-old genie in pristine red sneakers who is desperate for Wi-Fi and terrified of the dark.

The rules are simple: Clara has unlimited wishes. No tricks, no monkey's paw twists. But there's a catch. Eli isn't just magical; he's a walking paradox. The universe is trying to snap him back to the past, and his "battery" is running out.

To save him from fading into nothingness, Clara and Eli must travel back to the Dark Ages to break the curse at its source. Armed with a Swiss Army knife, a solar charger, and a very confused cat named Barnaby, they must outwit a power-hungry wizard and survive a world without plumbing.

History is messy. Magic is unstable. But falling in love might be the most dangerous wish of all.