Son of the Morning

'A hypnotic, heat-drenched romantasy' Jean Kwok, New York Times bestselling author 'A deliciously sexy paranormal romance set in the Black South' Demi Winters, bestselling author of The Ashen Series 'With enough romantic tension to make Hell itself look like tundra, this sizzling romance is an absolute delight' Shalini Abeysekara, bestselling author of This Monster of Mine Galilee Kincaid is haunted by the pull of something ancient, a secret too vast to name. Raised in the shadow of the Kincaid legacy, a formidable clan of Black women rooted in the weeping willows and rushing creeks, a hollow ache has always pulsed inside her . . . Until she meets him. Lucifer Helel. From the moment Gali lays eyes on him, something stirs within her. His gaze burns like fire, a predator's hunger concealed behind the mask of a mortal. In an instant, Gali knows he is not human. From their very touch, Lucifer sees the truth about Gali - she's not human either. Enter Leviathan, Lucifer's most trusted prince of Hell. A creature of shadow and fury, Levi has one mission: destroy Galilee before she unravels the delicate balance that binds Heaven, Hell, and Earth. Because Lucifer and Galilee's unstoppable attraction is more than forbidden - it's powerful enough to tear apart the very fabric of existence. As the world teeters on the edge of eternity, will Galilee embrace the untamed force within her and risk everything to reclaim her true self?

AKWAEKE, lauded as 'one of our greatest living writers' (Shondaland) and 'a once-in-a-generation voice' (Vulture), is an artist based in liminal spaces. Born and raised in Nigeria, their work spans literature, music, film, and visual art. After performing at Afropunk Brooklyn in 2023 for their first live show, AKWAEKE's debut EP Stop Dying, You Were Very Expensive! drops on March 8, 2024. Their eighth book Little Rot will be published on June 18, 2024 from Riverhead Books. AKWAEKE moved to Brooklyn in the early 2010s as a poet and filmmaker, with their short film Ududeagu winning Best Short Experimental at the 2014 BlackStar Film Festival. They crashed into the literary scene in 2018 with their seminal debut novel Freshwater and published a total of seven books in four years, including the instant New York Times bestseller The Death Of Vivek Oji and National Book Award finalist Pet. Their romance novel You Made A Fool Of Death With Your Beauty was a Sunday Times bestseller, a 2023 NAACP Image Award nominee and the screen adaptation sold in a seven-figure deal to Amazon Studios, with AKWAEKE executive producing alongside Michael B. Jordan's Outlier Society.