Join us for a fantastic virtual event with the one and only Akwaeke Emezi celebrating their latest work, Son of the Morning, in conversation with Sanjana Basker! As Emezi once again embraces a new genre of writing with dark Romance, we the readers get the benefit of another banger of a book! Please tune in for this fantastic conversation and get ready for some steam.

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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's 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 (they/them) is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels Freshwater, The Death of Vivek Oji, You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty, Little Rot, the young adult novels Pet, Bitter, and Somadina, the memoir Dear Senthuran, and the poetry collection Content Warning: Everything. Featured on the cover of Time as a Next Generation Leader, they have been a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, among other awards, and are a recipient of an NAACP Image Award. You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty is in development with Amazon Studios as a feature film. They are based in liminal spaces.

By day, Sanjana Basker is a doctoral student in counseling psychology studying sex, gender, intimacy, and health through a critical feminist lens. By night, she's still a doctoral student, but she's also a romance reader, reviewer, and enthusiast. You can find her work on TikTok and most other platforms @baskinsuns or on Substack at Scratch Paper.

Akwaeke Emezi & Sanjana Basker for Son of the Morning