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

An exhilarating thirty minutes later, I was weaving my way through crowds of tourists on a mission to get back to Vazar’s exhibition hall. I had some exciting news, and I was bursting to tell him. 


I couldn’t contain the glee from spreading all over my face and just as his eyes met mine, he knew that I had been given the job.


“Congratulations, baby!” He swooped down to lift me into a giant hug.


“Thank you! I can’t believe it! I got my first ever job!” I laughed, allowing the waves of happiness to carry me away. 


I was acutely aware that in all my teenage years, I had never expressed my joyful emotions to this extent.  I couldn’t remember a time when I received such good news that made me want to dance around the room with the same euphoric feeling that was currently bubbling up inside me. 


Chapter 17: The Closeness