Gail asked, pausing to gaze at a landscape painting on the wall.

Rosalynn studied it intently, her brows slightly furrowed as she contemplated its details.

The signature at the bottom of the painting read "Maple". It was the alias used by Javier, a distinguished master of Landscape art.

He counted Christopher, Rosalynn's mentor, among his close friends until he succumbed to illness at eighty.

His artworks, now rare treasures, surged in value posthumously.