Star-coated Lies

Lianna Veloso grew up under glow-in-the-dark stars, raised on one rule: silent = strong. But silence shatters the morning her estranged Lola, Doña Victoria Mendoza, walks into their kitchen and asks how she knows James Alcantara. Lianna's never met her grandparents, never knew her mother Catalina once fled a wedding in a bloodied dress, and never questioned why the Alcantara name makes her parents freeze. In 1999, a car crash in Beranudo buried two bodies and one truth: the last Mendoza who loved an Alcantara didn't survive it. Now 27 years later, the Alcantaras are back in Mayana, James is in Lianna's phone, and her father Ramon - heir to the Veloso milling empire - is the only man who knows what it costs to keep a Mendoza alive. As secrets rise like smoke from Beranudo sea, Lianna must decide if breaking the silence is worth becoming the next ghost in her family's war. Because in Mayana, stars lie. And so do bloodlines.