Snapshots In Scarlet examines the tumultuous relationship between Martha Neeves and her daughter Heather. Living in the eighties as a divorcee in Vermont, Martha still has great difficulty in understanding her daughter's seemingly unorthodox behavior while Heather was growing up in the sixties and early seventies while living in the Bay Area in and around San Francisco. The intertwining stories of these two women, each of them having to face the troubling realities of living in a world of upheaval and danger, form the passionate heart of this novel.