Synopsis:
A heartwarming paranormal cosy romance set in a small Scottish village, featuring a flamboyant genie, three unexpected wishes, and a second chance at love after loss.
Love, second chances, and a dash of magic… what could possibly go wrong?
Beth Calder’s life so far:
Marriage falling apart? Check.
Heartbreak she can’t quite move past? Check.
Fresh start in a quiet Scottish village? Check.
Discovering a genie inside a pinball machine? That’s new.
Arriving in Cranley is meant to be Beth’s chance to begin again. A job as head chef at The Jekyll and Hyde pub, a cosy place to call home, and a village that doesn’t ask too many questions feel like exactly what she needs. Romance is firmly off the table.
That becomes harder to hold onto when she meets Kieran, a thoughtful and quietly charming tech developer who understands more than she expects. It becomes even harder when the pub’s dusty basement reveals a glitter-loving genie with a habit of interfering and a belief that Beth’s story isn’t over yet.
With three wishes she doesn’t quite trust and a heart still holding onto the past, Beth must decide whether to keep playing it safe or risk everything for a chance at something new.
In Cranley, even the most unexpected kind of magic can help you find your way forward.
A Wish for Beth is Book 4 in the Cranley Wishes series. Perfect for readers who love small-town charm, gentle paranormal romance, and uplifting second-chance love stories filled with warmth, hope, and a touch of magic.
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This was cute and I really enjoyed it. I was a little worried going in because the genie in a bottle plot line has been done many times and can easily tip into cliche territory. But this one had a little special something that made it work. Charming chemistry, an involved enough backstory, and just a genuinely entertaining read.
If you were given three wishes but could feel that some of them might change you in ways you did not expect, would you use them all?
The Story
A Wish For Beth follows Beth Calder, who arrives in the small Scottish village of Cranley for a fresh start after a painful relationship breakdown. A new job as head chef at The Jekyll and Hyde pub, a cozy place to call home, and a village that does not ask too many questions. Romance is firmly off the table. Then she meets Kieran, a thoughtful and quietly charming tech developer with more in common with her than she expects. And then the pub’s dusty basement reveals a glitter loving genie with a habit of interfering and three wishes Beth is not sure she can trust.
This is book four in the Cranley Wishes series, but I did not realise that when I signed up for the tour and I can tell you honestly that it did not matter at all. This one stands completely on its own.
Reading Experience
Reading this book felt like cuddling up with your favorite blanket and a warm cup of tea and watching your favorite cozy rom com. The dual POV was a really interesting choice because both Beth and Kieran are our romantic leads, but what made it work so well is that they were both independently on their own healing journeys. They had each experienced painful losses and painful breakups and they were both working through that completely separately, not as a project for each other. They were figuring themselves out in their own ways, on their own timelines. And when they were both healed and ready to move on, they discovered they had each other. I loved that dynamic. It felt real and it felt healthy and it felt earned.
The writing itself is charming and cozy with a lovely Scottish influence running through everything. And the pub at the center of the story creates this wonderful found family dynamic where characters with their own separate stories and their own separate journeys all come together in one space and support each other through things. That kind of storytelling always gets me.
Going in I knew this was going to be a genie in a bottle style setup. In this case it is a genie in a pinball machine, which is delightfully silly and honestly that is exactly what you want from a book like this. It is not meant to be a deeply fantasy dark romance. It is meant to be comedic relief from real life. Whatever you are going through, this book can make you laugh, make you heal, make you long for something different, make you hope for change. And it manages all of that while also being genuinely warm and rooted in real human experience.
Heartbeat
The heartbeat of this book is the concept of wishes. If three wishes were magically granted to you, what would you wish for? And I think that question is the heartbeat of any wishes-granted story. Sometimes the concept is about drastic lifestyle changes or going back and doing things differently. But in this book Beth starts out wishing for the things she thought she wanted. The magical fairy tale ending with her ex. The painful loss she wished had never happened. But those experiences shaped her. That pain and that loss and that grief made her who she is. And Beth has to arrive at a point in her own growth where she realizes that what she wanted and what she needed were completely different outcomes. And that the wishes required to get what she actually needed were already inside herself.
I think that is true for anyone. We convince ourselves we need luck on our side, we need the magical outcome, we need things to have gone differently to feel whole, but we are already whole. We just need to find a way to see it. A change of perspective, healing from a past wound, looking at our goals through a different lens. We do not need a genie in a bottle. We need to find what is already there.
Final Thoughts
A Wish For Beth is a warm, charming, genuinely delightful cozy paranormal romance that I would recommend to the rom com girlies who like something magical and light and fun but also rooted in very real experiences of loss and grief and pain. If you like your romance with a strong inner growth story alongside it, this one is for you.
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Audrey Davis is the bestselling author of sparkling romantic comedies that blend warmth, wit and just a touch of mischief. She burst onto the scene with A Clean Sweep and its prequel A Clean Break, before bewitching readers with her ghostly romcom The Haunting of Hattie Hastings, first published as a trilogy and later as a standalone novel.
Her feel-good Cranley Wishes series began with A Wish for Jinnie and went on to delight fans with A Wish for Jo and A Wish for Wilma. Along the way, she also delivered the laugh-out-loud Lost in Translation (2021). Her latest standalone, The Lexicon of Love, charmed readers in September 2025.
Originally from the UK but now settled in Switzerland with her husband, Audrey divides her time between writing, shopping, cooking, and indulging her love of red wine. She’s a voracious reader, a keen storyteller, and never fails to get a little giddy when readers reach out.
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