Before the Lies Are Revealed

Four “white lies” used to protect loved ones.

“You can only stay in the past while the coffee is hot.”

Four men who come to a mysterious coffee shop called Funiculi Funicula would do anything to return to the past, and they have requests that are difficult to voice.

This long-awaited new story, which takes place 7 years after the top-selling Before the Coffee Gets Cold, is finally here!

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An urban legend is circulating about a certain seat in a certain town’s coffee shop. If you sit in that particular seat, rumor has it you will be transported back to the time of your choice. But there are some very troublesome rules involved:

1. Even in the past, you can’t meet anyone who has never visited the coffee shop.

2. No matter what you do in the past, you can’t change the present.

3. A customer will be sitting in your seat when you arrive at the shop. You have to wait until they’ve left to sit down.

4. You can’t leave to go anywhere else.

5. Your time in the past starts when your coffee has been poured and ends once the coffee has gone cold.

Those aren’t the only rules, but even today people are still coming to the coffee shop after hearing the rumors. The coffee shop is called Funiculi Funicula. Would you still want to travel to the past under these conditions? This book tells the story of four heart-warming miracles that took place in this coffee shop.

Story 1: A man goes back to visit a friend who died 22 years ago.

Story 2: A son who couldn’t attend his mother’s funeral.

Story 3: A man goes back to visit the one to whom he couldn’t get married.

Story 4: An old detective goes back to give a present to his wife.

If you could go back, who would you see?

The follow-up to Before the Coffee Gets Cold has finally arrived.

I cried just as much while working on this book as I did while working on the first one.  I especially liked the second story.

Let us know which one you like the best!