Author:
Cindy Spencer Pape firmly believes in happily-ever-after and brings that to her writing. A multiple award-winning author, she has published almost sixty novels and stories. When not hard at work writing, she can be found restoring her 1870 house, dressing up for steampunk parties and Renaissance fairs, or with her nose buried in a book. Visit her website: www.cindyspencerpape.com.

Professor David Garavaglia is nobody’s idea of a hero. Is he? When David opens an antique box and finds a sexy Djinni in his bed, his desire for her is almost as powerful as his determination to set her free.  Anissa has spent centuries as a prisoner of the box and has dreamed of the day some handsome master would release her. The scruffy computer geek isn’t what she expected, but there’s something about him she can’t resist.

While David and Anissa explore their explosive passion, he helps her adjust to the twenty-first century. Complicating things is an evil wizard who wants Anissa for his own. Between scorching attraction and hacking government computers, David does everything he can to keep her safe—and satisfied.

Djinni and the Geek

Dave and Anissa moved around the party and chatted with other faculty members and even a few students from the fantasy and role-playing clubs on campus, which Montoya had belonged to as a grad student while Dave was a faculty advisor. Though Dave caught some ribbing about having shaved, it was worth it to see the happy gleam in Anissa's violet eyes.


Finally Eric and Lori showed up. As Wes and Ben shepherded them in, Dave began maneuvering himself and Anissa closer to the new arrivals.


"Oh." Anissa shook her head and whispered to Dave. "She should not be here tonight."


"Why not?" He continued to tug her closer to the door even as he murmured back. "Nobody keeps pregnant women confined and isolated anymore."


Anissa stopped dead and tugged on his hand, forcing him to turn and look her in the eyes. "You care about this woman." Her voice was curious but still pitched so low that no one else could hear.


Chapter 21