Teo Sun de la Cruz is a nineteen-year-old fixer with a gift for technology and an iron will. In Washington Heights, he keeps his head down, repairs broken phones, plays dominoes with his bisabuela, and looks out for his family.

But when his grandfather - keeper of ancient stories and the last living link to Teo's heritage - dies, Teo is pulled into a legacy he never knew existed: a bloodline born from the union of the Monkey King and a mortal woman.

Now Teo is the last heir to an ancient power. To understand it, he must leave the only block he has ever known and cross an ocean, from New York to Fuzhou, into temples and mountains where the old stories are not stories at all. Armed with a mystical staff that chooses him, and with the help of Mei, a fearless woman with secrets of her own, Teo discovers that magic is real, demons walk in human skin, and the choices in front of him could ignite a war that spans generations.

He doesn't want to be a hero. He just wants to protect his family.

But the sun never gets to choose when it rises.

The Last Sun: A Journey Back East is a contemporary fantasy of two worlds and one bloodline - Dominican New York and Chinese legend braided into a single inheritance.