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Son of the Morning (Pocket Books Romance) Kindle Edition

4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,831 ratings

New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard captivates readers in the deeply romantic tale of a contemporary woman who unravels an extraordinary mystery from the past—by living it.

A scholar specializing in ancient manuscripts, Grace St. John never imagined that a cache of old documents she discovered was the missing link to a lost Celtic treasure. But as soon as she deciphers the legend of the Knights of the Templar -- long fabled to hold the key to unlimited power -- Grace becomes the target of a ruthless killer bent on abusing the coveted force. Determined to stop him, Grace needs the help of a warrior bound by duty to uphold the Templar's secret for all eternity. But to find him -- and to save herself -- she must go back in time . . . to fourteenth-century Scotland . . . and to Black Niall, a fierce man of dark fury and raw, unbridled desire. . . .
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All of Linda Howard's novels are wonderful but this exceptional time-travel is her first foray into paranormal romance--and it's not to be missed. Grace St. John, a scholar, unwittingly discovers the Knights of Templar's secret treasure. Suddenly, her life is upturned when she spies her boss murdering her husband and brother. With no reason to live, except to extract vengeance, Grace becomes a fugitive of the law as she attempts to find an explanation for this horrible act. Grace simultaneously translates 14th century medieval documents written by Black Niall. This embittered knight reaches into Grace's subconscious and the two begin to share dreams 700 years apart.

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“Suspenseful and thrilling from beginning to end . . . sensational.”
Romantic Times

"Linda Howard offers a romantic time-travel thriller with a fascinating premise . . . gripping passages and steamy sex." --
Publishers Weekly

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B002XQAAZO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Pocket Books; Reissue edition (November 19, 2009)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 19, 2009
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1.3 MB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 388 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,831 ratings

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Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and Dying to Please. She lives in Alabama with her husband and two golden retrievers.

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Customers find the book engaging and well-written. They enjoy the suspenseful storyline and character development. The pacing is described as fast and smooth, with great tension throughout. Readers appreciate the time travel elements and sensual romance scenes. Overall, customers praise the book's quality and value for money.

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Customers find the book engaging and well-written. They appreciate the premise, characters, and adventure. The story is enjoyable and keeps readers hooked until the end. Overall, it's considered one of the author's best works.

"...History, mystery, love, revenge, the good and the bad. Worth your time" Read more

"...The characters are well developed and the storyline grabs you from the very beginning and you can't put it down...." Read more

"...I love Harmony, her character was great. This was a good adventure and had a twist at the end which I really liked...." Read more

"...I loved the premise, the characters (the secondary characters are very well written) and the way she has woven them all together...." Read more

103 customers mention "Suspenseful story"95 positive8 negative

Customers enjoy the book's suspenseful storyline. They find it interesting and engaging, with a unique plot that captures their interest from the first few pages. The love story spans seven centuries with drama and an intriguing question about what if. The book keeps readers hooked until the last page and leaves them wanting more.

"A different book from Howard that I thoroughly enjoyed. History, mystery, love, revenge, the good and the bad. Worth your time" Read more

"...The storyline is impossible to predict and you can't help but love the main characters. I can't say enough good things about it...." Read more

"...It has all the elements you'd want in a good romance even though the main characters don't get together until the last third of the book...." Read more

"Amazing story that kept me wondering what was going to happen next. Would Grace and Niall find each other? Will the treasure be discovered?..." Read more

35 customers mention "Character development"30 positive5 negative

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"...I love Harmony, her character was great. This was a good adventure and had a twist at the end which I really liked...." Read more

"...I loved the premise, the characters (the secondary characters are very well written) and the way she has woven them all together...." Read more

"...Niall was a great characters; strong, ruthless but caring too. There were some very steamy scenes after a lot of sexual tension too...." Read more

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"Niall is drooling-worthy and Grace is completely credible. I like the plot too, it uses a lot of old tropes very well." Read more

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22 customers mention "Time travel"19 positive3 negative

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"...There were some very steamy scenes after a lot of sexual tension too. Overall I wasn't too excited to read this." Read more

"...recommended by an author I recently read because it had an unforgettably hot alpha male. Boy does ever! Going to be a while before I forget him...." Read more

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"...The sex scene was a total shock because not only do they had never been together before and you don't get the change to follow the natural course of..." Read more

18 customers mention "Writing quality"14 positive4 negative

Customers enjoy the writing quality. They find the dialogue clever and the research descriptive. The book is well-written from a different perspective and enjoyable.

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12 customers mention "Strength"9 positive3 negative

Customers appreciate the heroine's strength. They find her intelligent, kind, and determined to avenge the senseless murder. The heroine uses her wits and knowledge to fight for her life. The struggle for survival is realistic as she slowly learns how to survive.

"...Niall was a great characters; strong, ruthless but caring too. There were some very steamy scenes after a lot of sexual tension too...." Read more

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  • Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2024
    A different book from Howard that I thoroughly enjoyed. History, mystery, love, revenge, the good and the bad. Worth your time
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2024
    I actually bought this book when it was in paperback form and this is the book that got me hooked on time-travel romance books. The characters are well developed and the storyline grabs you from the very beginning and you can't put it down. And I say that because I am now reading it for the 3rd time. The storyline is impossible to predict and you can't help but love the main characters. I can't say enough good things about it. Please give it a try. JJR
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 16, 2024
    It felt at times that the story dragged, however in fairness to the Author, it needed extensive World building so that we, the reader, could understand the why and how of it. I love Harmony, her character was great. This was a good adventure and had a twist at the end which I really liked. I love the romance that crosses time. Good read.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2015
    I don't usually read time-travel but this book was so unusual and well written that I had to make an exception. Linda Howard has written a romance with a heroine who develops throughout the story and a hero that is extremely special. She's a lingust who specializes in ancient languages and he's a Knight Templar - the very embodiment of what a medieval hero should be. The story takes place in two separate time periods on two different continents following both Grace St John in current time and Niall of Scotland in the 14th Century. It has all the elements you'd want in a good romance even though the main characters don't get together until the last third of the book. Ms Howard has obviously researched the Templars and the time period to make her scenes authentic and resonant. I loved the premise, the characters (the secondary characters are very well written) and the way she has woven them all together. The stroy moved along at a good pace and the love story was deeply moving. I would recommend this book to anyone who has never read a time-travel before - it was excellent on all levels.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2024
    Amazing story that kept me wondering what was going to happen next. Would Grace and Niall find each other? Will the treasure be discovered? Who was Parrish and why did he want those papers Grace was translating? I found it difficult to put this book down but I had to sleep. LOL
  • Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2024
    I'm a big reader and love romantic suspense books. This is one of the best books I have read in quite a while. Highly recommend.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2011
    This book could have been so much better. I would have loved to see someone with exceptional writing skills such as Marsha Canham or Kathleen Woodiwiss take on this storyline. The actual concept is extremely unique, and for those of us who has seen (and read) it all, a unique story is a rare find. However I must point out a few things that made this story a less than steller read and therefore a bit unbelievable for me. For one, the author spent more than half the book with the heroine on the run and vast parts of that were just extremely boring. And other than the prologue, we rarely get a glimpse of the hero unless it is a rare small tidbit in a dream of the heroine or even a less occurance, of the hero feeling someone watching him. That's it. That's all we get for 3/4 of the book. They never come in contact with each other, either real or in a dream until around page 162 and then totally out of the blue, a chapter opens up with the hero and heroine having sex, however this too is in a dream. They don't actually come in contact with each other until the end of the book. I also found it so odd that the subject of sex, lovemaking or even romance is never even mentioned until that dream which occurs on page 162. The sex scene was a total shock because not only do they had never been together before and you don't get the change to follow the natural course of them meeting and getting to know each other, but you didn't even know the heroine had any sensuality at all. The author spends so much time convincing us that the heroine is this non-descript nerdy little boring housewife who doesn't wear makeup nor has any sense of style or fashion, that we are in disbelief when she brings up the subject of her actually enjoying sex. We only know about this mousey boring woman whose funky landlord is much more interesting than her. Another thing that bothered me was her husband and her brother gets killed at the beginning of the book so you don't get to know them at all and therefore there is this disconnect with her emotional attachment to them. However, the most unrealistic character in the book was the "Evil Villain" Parrish. I don't know... maybe Ms. Howard watches too many movies. Is it a reach to think that she took his personality right from characters such as Victor Maitland from Beverly Hills Cop or Hans Gruber from Diehard? The difference being that Parrish apparently has ESP and is able to leap over tall buildings, ah I mean leap over all logic to just know... (know) how, when and where the heroine was. His evil powers magically deduced that she would go to Eau Claire. Then on to Chicago. Amazing... He stakes out the McDonalds and low and behold, she actually goes there. Are you kidding me? A man who pals around with senators and world leaders answers his own work phone and automatically knows without hearing one word that it is the heroine on the other end? He personally watches the security monitors at his office building...Really?... This was just too much. It really brought out the cynicism in me. And worst of all was thinking that if the heroine was so damn intelligent then why didn't she pick up on how evil her boss was in the first place? And why was such a mousy little nobody housewife working for a man who paled around with senators and billionaires and had fantasies of becoming the richest man in the world? I mean she was a language translator for heavens sake! I don't know... The book focused way too much on the unattractive heroine who had a sexy mouth (boy is that lost on the readers which are 99% women)... and not nearly enough on the hero who is described to be so alpha but we never get to fall in love with him because he is missing in action.. However the last part of the book, when she travels back in time and actually meets the hero, is really good and may have well saved the book for me. In the last few pages you finally get a sense of the hero. When she opens up to him and tells him the truth. But then it gets corny again when they go back to the future to Kill Parrish and his side kick turns out to be a follower of the hero. Yeah ok. Whatever. And all the lightning bolts and magic at the end was a bit much for me. Because the author hinting at the character of the hero and the story itself was good I will give it 3 stars and not two or one like I started to.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on January 14, 2024
    A historical romance with a unique plot, Son of Morning, captures your interest from the first few pages until its ending. Well written, well worth your time, well worth your money, read Son of Morning.
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  • Linda Di Rienzo
    5.0 out of 5 stars Well written book.
    Reviewed in Canada on August 31, 2020
    Good read. I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
  • Marple
    5.0 out of 5 stars A good read and very likable character.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 31, 2017
    I'll be honest about the reason I searched for this book. It's the only Linda Howard I'm aware of that is very hard to find. I guess that explains the high cost for a used book. I enjoyed the unusual twist and turns in this murder mystery. Romance was not left out because after all it is a Linda Howard book. You'll really like the main character Grace. The author really does a good job growing the character of Grace.
  • Linda
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best
    Reviewed in Australia on May 20, 2018
    Wish Linda would cover this theme again. I've read this book 5 or 6 times and love it more each time. Thanks Linda
  • M. Zimmermann
    5.0 out of 5 stars Außergewöhnliche Liebesgeschichte durch Zeit und Raum
    Reviewed in Germany on June 11, 2013
    "Son of the Morning" war mein erster Roman der Autorin und ich muss sagen, ich habe es nicht bereut! Eine unglaublich fesselnde Geschichte rund um Templer, alte Artefakte und natürlich eine Liebe, die Jahrhunderte überdauert.
    Gerade die Tatsache, dass die Heldin und der Held sich erst recht spät im Buch wirklich gegenüberstehen, ist mal etwas "Erfrischendes" und hat mich positiv überrascht. Werde nun nach mehr Büchern dieser Autorin Ausschau halten :)
  • BFMrs
    5.0 out of 5 stars As gripping as Dream Man
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 25, 2012
    I loved this. The journey the female lead takes has you feeling quite ill at ease for most of it (in a good way.. Linda Howard's obviously doing her job!). And without giving too much away.. it comes together in the end. Although I was a little narked at how the male lead kept leaving the female, most of the time without a backwards glance. But then.. he had many other more.. er.. pleasing attributes. If I could give a critism it would be that they weren't together long enough. You were left wanting a bit more. Bur still... I'd recommend it. It's one of her more stand out original books for sure. You won't regret reading it. I've certainly re-read it a few times!

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