Living Red

Living Red is a young-adult fiction about eighteen-year old Peyton as she searches for meaning and truth in life. When she wanders into a local Art Gallery, Peyton is drawn to Dallas and to the sunsets he paints in ways that she can't explain. Although the world is making major advances in communicating with one another and even traveling through thought, she is struggling with the secrets her Grandma Ava is sharing with her. As she grows closer to Dallas, she discovers more about life that surprise her, and she begins to realize that everything is not as simple as it seems. Will she learn to follow her intuition to discover the truth?

Living Red is a New-Adult Futuristic Novel set during a period of time when humankind is making major advances in communicating with one another and even traveling through thoughts alone. Eighteen year old, Peyton Milner lives with her parents and her brother in one of the few civilizations remaining and thriving in what is left of America after everything and everyone was almost obliterated by war. Although the world is making major advances in communicating with one another and even traveling through thought, she is struggling with the secrets her Grandma Ava is sharing with her. When she and her best friend, Reese, wander into a local Art Gallery where she meets Dallas, she is drawn to him and to the sunsets he paints in ways that she can't describe, ways that contradict all common sense and rationale. Peyton has been raised to place vast significance on one's intelligence and the power of reasoning and logic in all decisions, but will she learn to follow her intuition to discover the truth?

Susan Marie Schulhof is the proud mother of three adult daughters and lives in the Chicago area. Living Red is her third book. She graduated from Northern Illinois University with a Bachelor's Degree in Psychology and has worked in the Early Childhood Education field since 2001. She is working on her Master's Degree and writes a blog for ChicagoNow called Looking For the Good.