Hannah is a young British-Pakistani girl living in East London. Her strict household makes it difficult for her to escape from the pressure of being a good daughter. One such pressure leads her on a fairy-tale romance with a guy she meets at the British Museum. He ticks all the boxes except one. He isn't human. He belongs to the realm of Jinns. 
Hannah soon discovers the guy she's falling in love with is a prisoner, bound to an ancient vase for 1000 years for a crime that wasn't entirely his fault. To release the love of her life from his sentence, Hannah must embark on a dangerous journey that will not only break her away from her own family but will also attract the attention of entities in the Jinn world that should never have learned how far a human will go to save the Jinn she loves. 

Don't Say the Jinn Word

It was day two and Fatima still hadn’t returned home. By this point, we all had given up hope of ever seeing her again. Our two houses were deathly silent. No one talked. No one made a fuss, and no one bothered me to come downstairs and look after the house. Both my parents were eating over at Uncles and I barely saw them, which was fine by me. Except, with everyone being so stressed out and gossip flying around, our parents had forbidden us to leave the house until the commotion died down.


Yesterday morning, I had woken up early to the smell of French toast cooking in the kitchen. When I reached downstairs, I was surprised to see both Uncle and Aunty eating breakfast with my parents. As I entered the kitchen, I was told that school was cancelled until Fatima was found. I knew arguing was pointless and now wasn’t the time to cause drama when something so big was taking root in our family.


Chapter 14: The Long Week