Son of the Morning

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From New York Times bestselling author Akwaeke Emezi comes a steamy paranormal romance set in the Black South—a bold new foray that takes us on a journey of magic and fantasy, from the whispering creeks outside the city of Salvation to the very depths of Hell itself.

Tenderhearted Galilee was raised by the Kincaids, a formidable clan of Black women sequestered deep in the weeping willows and dark rushing creeks of their land. Galilee has always known that she’s different—that there is an old and unknowable secret around her very existence. It has been a hollow ache inside her since her childhood, something she assumes she will always have to live with.

Until she meets Lucifer Helel. He’s fronting as the head of security for her wealthy friend Oriaku’s family, protecting a mysterious, ancient artifact, but from the moment she lays eyes on him, Gali knows he’s not human. From her first incendiary touch, Lucifer knows something even Gali herself doesn’t—that she isn’t human either. 

Enter: Leviathan. As Lucifer’s most trusted prince of Hell, Levi is ruthless and determined to eliminate the intolerable danger that is Galilee before she brings death and disaster to those he loves. While unseen battles rage between Hell, Heaven, and earth, Lucifer and Galilee’s attraction threatens to bring all the structures of their existence crashing down around them.

Soon, loyalties will be shattered and reformed as Kincaid secrets clash with the princes of Hell, driving even the most powerful to their knees. Galilee Kincaid must decide if she will step into herself and embrace the consequences of power in this astonishing, seductive, and wildly original fantasy.

Akwaeke Emezi

Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Death of Vivek Oji, which was a finalist for the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the PEN/Jean Stein Award; Pet, a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, a Walter Honor Book, and a Stonewall Honor Book; Freshwater, which was named a New York Times Notable Book and shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize; Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Prize for Best Nonfiction Book; and most recently, Content Warning: Everything, their debut poetry collection, and Bitter, their second young adult novel. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honoree by the National Book Foundation and featured on a Time magazine cover as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.

“One of our greatest living writers”

—Shondaland

“A love story like no other, and this one…will have you gripped from page one.”

—Vogue on You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

“An unabashed ode to living with, and despite, pain and mortality.”

—The New York Times Book Review on You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

“Emezi’s (Little Rot) skillful storytelling is lush and evocative, [their] signature prose is haunting. In a time of overwhelming choices for romantasy books, this deeply seductive novel stands out with a visceral allure. An absolute must-have.”

—Library Journal (starred review)

"Holy moly, is it the flames of Hell making it hot in here or is it Akwaeke Emezi's phenomenal writing?! With captivating characters full of tensions both supernatural and sensual, SON OF THE MORNING is romantic, scorching, and not to be missed!"

—Jason June, New York Times best-selling author

“Son of the Morning sizzles with evocative, lyrical prose and tantalizing spice. A story of yearning and dark indulgences amid a clash of angels and demons. Akwaeke Emezi's story kept me hooked as Lucifer, the seductive Devil, and Galilee, an alluring woman brimming with unknown magic, fall into each other while trying to stop the world from ripping apart at the seams.”

—A. J. Locke, author of The Vanish Witch

“A deliciously sexy paranormal romance set in the Black South with a cast of biblical characters like you've never seen them before! The love interest? The literal devil. Awkaeke Emezi peels back the layers of Galilee's heritage and examines themes of salvation, power, and the struggle between legacy and desire. I could not put it down!”

—Demi Winters, author of The Road of Bones and Kingdom of Claw

“Son of the Morning plunges readers into a lush South where a young woman with untapped power and a dangerously alluring supernatural are drawn into a game of desire that could split the cosmos. Emezi delivers a hypnotic, heat-drenched romantasy that is sumptuous and charged with sizzling, forbidden chemistry.”

—Jean Kwok, author of Dominion

“Son of the Morning is a delicious inferno of cosmic war and conflicting loyalties amidst a journey towards reclaiming identity. With enough romantic tension to make Hell itself look like tundra, this sizzling romance is an absolute delight.”

—Shalini Abeysekara, author of This Monster of Mine

“Akwaeke Emezi's Son of the Morning is a sizzling rollercoaster of a novel! Galilee is a heroine to root for, and the Kincaid women who love her are a force to be reckoned with, even for the devil himself. Hotter than a Southern summer, this story of fallen angels, demons, and badass women is an absolute treat.”

—Del Sandeen, author of This Cursed House

“Emezi's skillful storytelling is lush and evocative, [their] signature prose is haunting. In a time of overwhelming choices for romantasy books, this deeply seductive novel stands out with a visceral allure. An absolute must-have.”

—Library Journal, starred review

“An alluring paranormal romance [with] a tantalizing love triangle unlike any you've read before.”

—Bustle, The Most Anticipated Books Of Fall 2025

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Book Trim153 x 230mm
Number of Pages320
ISBN (Paperback)978-978-62055-6-4
Release DateNovember 21, 2025
GenreFantasy Fiction, Romance, Romantasy

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