Even The Sun Lies

Prologue
They say family is everything. But what they don't say is that sometimes, family isn't about who shares your blood. It's about who buries the bodies beside you. Who keeps your secrets when your own mind forgets to.

This isn't a story about organized crime. It's not even about justice.
It's about a boy born of brilliance and brokenness.
A house full of orphans turned kings.
And what happens when love finds the most unstable one and says, "You. I choose you."

This is the story of Adam Rico.
And the family that built him before love nearly broke him.

The Perez Children

Lukas Hernandez
Doesn't raise his voice. Doesn't miss a detail.
Knows where every body is buried-because he put them there.

Alejandro Siller-Perez
Always ready to pose for a business cover magazine but never fully seen.
The perfect face for an empire with blood on its teeth.

Elizabeth Perez
The only one born with the name.
Graceful. Strategic. Untouched by chaos-but never uninvolved.

Santiago Diaz
The calm one or maybe cruel one.
but definitely the one you want on your side when things get loud.

Christiano Ayuso
Smiles like a glitch. Thinks in code.
Trusts no system-except the one he built with his brothers.

Adam Rico
The storm known as the little brother.
And the spark that could burn it all down.
This is his love story.