Son of the Morning

November 2025 Indie Next ListHoly 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 bestselling 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 exciting new direction for Emezi. * Publishers Weekly *Sizzling hot * People Magazine *An alluring paranormal romance [with] a tantalizing love triangle unlike any you’ve read before. * Bustle, The Most Anticipated Books Of Fall 2025 *

Akwaeke Emezi, lauded as ‘one of our greatest living writers’ (Shondaland) and ‘a once-in-a-generation voice’ (Vulture), is a writer and artist using storytelling to centre indigenous Black realities and radical possibilities with the philosophy that re-indigenization is essential for liberation.

Born and raised in Nigeria, Emezi’s work spans literature, music, film, and visual art. They are 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 shortlisted for the PEN/Hemingway Award, the New Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Lambda Literary Award, and the Centre for Fiction’s First Novel Prize; and Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, which won the 2022 ALA Stonewall Prize for Best Nonfiction Book. Their romance novel You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty was a Sunday Times bestseller, a 2023 NAACP Image Award nominee and is in development for the screen at Amazon Studios. Selected as a 5 Under 35 honouree by the National Book Foundation and featured on a Time cover as a Next Generation Leader, they are based in liminal spaces.

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