Seventeen-year-old Rael O'Brien meets a Genie on the banks of a Jamaican river - or at least, he thinks he does.

The creature offers him three wishes:

three escapes from the pain, poverty, violence, and loneliness that have followed Rael his entire life.

But the more Rael refuses to wish, the more the Genie tests him - breaking friendships, twisting memories, and forcing impossible choices.

Every victory feels stolen.

Every loss feels designed.

Until Rael realizes the truth:

The Genie isn't real.

The battles aren't magic.

The monster he's fighting is his own mind.

As reality unravels, Rael clings to one lifeline - the belief that if he can hold onto one thing, one reason to stay alive, he can survive the war inside his head.

But the tests grow harsher. The illusions become dangerous.

And when Rael collapses in the real world, his mother and the girl he loves watch him fade in a hospital bed as the final truth breaks open:

Rael didn't need three wishes.

He needed one person to stay.

Heart-wrenching, spiritual, and unflinchingly honest, this novel blends Caribbean folklore with the raw reality of mental illness to tell the story of a boy who fought every demon except the one living beneath his own skin.

And when Rael's heartbeat slips into silence, one question remains:

If the mind can create its own monsters...

can love create its own miracles?