The Wings of the Morning, is a book by Tom Tryon

Tom Tryon

Tom Tryon was an American film and television actor, best known for playing the title role in the film The Cardinal and the Walt Disney television character Texas John Slaughter...

 published by Fawcett Crest, New York, 1990

This is the first book of a trilogy planned by the author and precedes In the Fire of Spring

In the Fire of Spring

In the Fire of Spring is a book written by Tom Tryon published by Ivy Books, New York, 1992.This book is a sequel to The Wings of the Morning. Unfortunately Mr. Tryon died before completing the final book of his trilogy....

. This story takes place in Pyquog Landing, the early name for the town that eventually became known as Wethersfield, Connecticut

Wethersfield, Connecticut

Wethersfield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. Many records from colonial times spell the name Weathersfield, while Native Americans called it Pyquag...

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From the book's leading review:

Pequot Landing, Connecticut

Connecticut

Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, and the state of New York to the west and the south .Connecticut is named for the Connecticut River, the major U.S. river that approximately...

, is not the place—nor is this the time—for love. Yet Aurora Talcott and Sinjin Grimes are struck with it as by a thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

A thunderbolt is a discharge of lightning accompanied by a loud thunderclap or its symbolic representation. In its original usage the word may also have been a description of meteors, or, as Plato suggested in Timaeus, of the consequences of a close approach between two planetary cosmic bodies,...

--only to be violently separated by their feuding elders and catapulted to opposite ends of the earth: she to aristocratic England

England

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, and he to the trading hongs of Macao

Mação

Mação is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of 400.0 km² and a total population of 7,763 inhabitants.The municipality is composed of eight parishes, and is located in the Santarém District....

 and the pirate seas of China

China

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. And left behind at home, growing stronger from her own desperate struggle, is Georgiana, the hired girl whose secret story entwines the fates of them all...