The Genie Back Guarantee (Moon Over Marisol)

Marisol's landed in worse places than a pile of camel dung. Probably.

Her assignment this month: return a tyrant to his prison. Simple enough - except the tyrant has renamed himself Khalidra the Magnificent, declared himself king of a desert city, and is granting wishes through a bureaucracy so elaborate it requires forty-seven-question application forms, a review committee, and a formal request for doves to spell his name in the sky.

He's built a seventy-five-foot glowing statue of himself. He's drained an entire city of its joy and devotion. And he's furious that Tibby keeps stealing his crowds.

But the more Marisol digs into the all-powerful Khalidra the Magnificent, the more she suspects that the man behind the title might not be quite as magnificent as advertised.

His real name alone might be enough to end him - if she can say it out loud without laughing.

A humorous fantasy about pompous tyrants, cosmic community service, and the possibility that the most dangerous person in the room is also the most ridiculous. Each book in the Moon Over Marisol series is a complete adventure. Start here or anywhere.

Dennis Santaniello is a New Jersey-born author who writes novels, screenplays, and essays. His work moves between historical fiction and nonfiction, with a steady interest in how people carry memory, loyalty, and damage through time. His books include Sergei and Hans, a World War I novel set on the Eastern Front, The Conquistadors Trilogy about the Spanish conquest of the Americas, the nonfiction series The Fruits of History, and Dennis At The Movies. He publishes independently and approaches his work with patience, curiosity, and a voice shaped by long years of writing and revisiting the same questions from different angles.