Birds of a Feather (The Ravenhood Legacy #3)

Prologue

TYLER

IN ORDER TO keep a secret, you have to be able to successfully tell a lie.

To successfully tell a lie, you have to trick your mind into believing your deceitful invention as the absolute truth.

First, you create markers in your mind of where the lie stems from—the why of it, who it involves, and those it will affect.

From there, you branch out a barrier of details around the falsity to help eradicate any trace of what the truth once was.

Once you believe it, you live it, instilling those details into the minds of those who surround you so they, too, invest in and strengthen your lie as truth.

Once that’s done, it’s no longer a lie.

The truth about lies?

They protect secrets, but secrets seldom protect anyone.

I should know because to protect my secrets and those I love, I’ve become a living, breathing fucking lie.