The Garden of Five Cups

“Five cups that go cold when someone lies, a teahouse about to become a coal wharf, and a carpenter who came back with a lie.”

Rosalía Morán and carpenter Julián Valls inherit equal halves of the Bend Teahouse, a house on stilts that the council means to turn into a coal wharf unless it reopens before the new moon. To get the licence they need five guild witnesses and five porcelain cups that go cold the moment someone lies. The trouble is that Julián, on the very first day, already lied.