(Photo above by Anastasia Sofia Jones at Gallivant Girl.com)

Y’all have been so supportive that to thank you I’m sharing a scene from PARADOX. You don’t have to know much about the story to “get” this. Adele is an art crimes investigator. Mark is a dark ops agent assisting her in Morocco. Eannatum is a 12-inch, stolen Mesopotamian sculpture. And duende is a word that doesn’t translate from Spanish. ~Lucie

“Seeking the duende, there is neither map nor discipline. We only know it burns the blood like powdered glass, that it exhausts, rejects all the sweet geometry we understand, that it shatters styles and makes Goya, master of the greys, silvers and pinks of the finest English art, paint with his knees and fists in terrible bitumen blacks…” ~ Garcia Lorca

We arrived in Chefchaouen as the sun set over its deceptive, blue-wash walls. The center of Morocco’s…