Silver

by Maria Roti

Silver is a father-daughter story told from inside the slow collapse of a mind.

When James Brandt begins to fail, his daughter Sarah is forced to witness not only the progression of dementia, but the world that surrounds it - vague language, misplaced priorities, and a system more comfortable with soft lies than hard truth.

This is a story about biology.
About love formed through blood and time.
About what remains when memory disappears and the brain can no longer hold the self.

Told with brutal honesty and moments of dark humor, Silver examines aging, long-term care, and the quiet grief of watching someone die twice - once in mind, and once in body. And understanding what remains.

The silver lining isn't comfort.

It's knowing the truth before you need the lie.

85 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 5, 2026

About the author

Hello Friends, my real name is Schelli Rothi. The very first book I wrote was my memoir, "If The Shoe Fits" and that was many moons ago. Honestly I have never considered myself a writer, despite being a creative. My memoir was written for my own healing. My latest book, which is Fiction inspired by actual events, "I will never know", was written to bring awareness to what my husband and I endured, and since I am outspoken and a judge shut down my freedom of speech I took to the computer and told my story. Because of the nature of the story I changed my author name to Maria Roti. Maria being my middle name and Roti is my Norwegian last name. I am a free spirit, always have been. If you enjoy books that don't drag on forever then you will enjoy reading my work. Who I have been is not nearly as important as to who I have become.