RED: The most dangerous emotion is the one that feels justified

by Maria Roti

There are events people call accidents.

There are stories people repeat until they believe them.

And then there are truths that sit beneath both - unspoken, reshaped, quietly defended.

Years after a betrayal fractured a tight circle of friends, the surface appears stable. Lives moved on.
Relationships shifted. The past was labeled and filed away.

But memory is not neutral.
Neither is loyalty.

When old wounds are forced back into conversation, what emerges is not anger - it is interpretation. Who hurt who. Who stayed. Who walked away. Who gets to decide what really happened.

RED is a psychological study of pride, denial, and the quiet permission people give themselves when they believe their pain justifies their choices.

Because sometimes the most dangerous thing in a room isn't rage.

It's certainty.

92 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 28, 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.