Books

Some days the world feels too heavy for one heart to hold.

Small Prayers for Heavy Days is a book of gentle poems and quiet prayers for people learning how to keep going. These are words for the nights when you can’t sleep, the mornings when you need strength, and the hours when you can’t find the right language for hope.

Written in clear,...

The Weight of Smoke
Poems of Grief and Memory

What do we become after the fire, when the flames are gone but the smoke still lingers in our lungs?

In The Weight of Smoke, Book 5 of the Poetry of the Fire & Light Series, D. Vincent DeLorenzo writes from a masculine but deeply vulnerable place, tracing the quiet aftershocks of grief and the...

In When We Were Light, bestselling poet D. Vincent DeLorenzo turns his gaze toward the quiet radiance of love—its beginnings, its endings, and the light it leaves behind.

Through a collection of short and long poems, he explores the intimate language of connection: the spark between strangers, the ache of distance, and the fragile hope that...

Even after the flames die down, the embers remember.

Her Wild Embers is the second book in The Fire Within poetry series, a collection that explores the tender space between heartbreak and renewal. Where She Was the Fire captured the blaze of passion, longing, and loss, this next volume lingers in the quiet aftermath — in the wild, glowing coals...

Some loves burn bright enough to change us forever. Some fires don’t destroy—they refine.

In The Spark She Saved, award-winning author D. Vincent DeLorenzo returns with a new collection that traces the quiet miracle of healing after loss—the slow work of turning pain into light. These poems begin in the ashes of a love once fierce, follow the...

A literary novel written in real time, during a modern war.

When rockets strike the Thai–Cambodian border, a family of three flees into the jungle. The father carries a medical bag. The boy carries a backpack. The mother holds a green umbrella — and everything else.

Ashes in the Rain is a deeply human, emotionally charged novel written in the days...

The Last Boat: Echoes After the War

Book Two of The Quiet Soldier Series
By D. Vincent Delorenzo

After the war, he disappeared.

Not into the earth, not into the bottle, but into the sea.

On the sun-bleached island of Ko Samet, a former U.S. Army veteran known only to a few locals begins the quiet work of salvaging a wrecked Thai junk boat from the...

She was the fire you thought would fade — but her spark lingers in every shadow.

She Was the Fire is the first book in The Fire Within poetry series, a collection that burns with honesty, resilience, and raw emotion. These poems capture the intensity of love, the ache of heartbreak, and the glow of healing, offering readers a journey through both...

A soldier’s war doesn’t end when he leaves the battlefield—it just follows him home.

Sand and Silence is a stripped-down, emotionally raw war novella in the tradition of Hemingway and Tim O’Brien. Set during the First Gulf War, the story follows Private Daniel Keane and his platoon through sandstorms, firefights, burn pits, and boredom. They...