Chapter 28
Nervous and short of breath, Dee Lamar is too distressed to sit still. She and Pari Malik stroll a loop around historic Old Santa Fe, the New Mexico State Capitol Building (commonly known as "the Roundhouse"), and the downtown district of Santa Fe. She launches into a confession that she and Antoine began misleading the public upon settling in the city. He had lost interest in photography, perhaps from years of burnout, and was intrigued by the rugged mountain lifestyle of northern New Mexico. Dee, knowing her own photographic skills had developed to a professional and brilliant level, liked the idea of having her works displayed, admired, and sold without having to start over. She had some trepidation about the public deception, but justified it as deserved from years' wo
