The Spark She Saved (Fire & Light Book 3)

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 long silence of survival, and rise into a final act of grace and renewal.

Told through a deeply human male voice, each page feels like a letter written in the aftermath of heartbreak—tender, unguarded, and unashamed of feeling too much. DeLorenzo captures what so many of us fear to say aloud: that even after we break, we still long to believe in something kind, something worth returning to.

Across four luminous sections—The Glow Before, What We Lost in the Flame, The Hands That Held the Light, and The Light We Become—the collection moves from intimacy to loss to forgiveness and finally to peace. The result is a tapestry of love poems and elegies that read like fragments of lived memory: coffee left steaming on the table, a name whispered through rain, a morning that tastes like forgiveness.

Every line is stripped of excess, every silence intentional. The Spark She Saved is not about grand declarations, but about the small, ordinary ways people keep loving after everything has fallen apart—the cup washed carefully, the hand held steady, the decision to stay.

Readers will find themselves reflected in these pages: those who have endured heartbreak, rebuilt quietly, or chosen softness again despite the cost. It is a book about learning to hold warmth without burning, about surviving tenderness, about the quiet beauty of continuing.

“Love is not the fire,” DeLorenzo writes. “It is what survives of us when the fire is gone.”

For fans of Lang Leav, Atticus, R. H. Sin, Courtney Peppernell, Pierre Alex Jeanty, and Beau Taplin, this collection speaks the same emotional language—but with a mature, grounded male perspective that feels both timeless and new. If you loved the intimate honesty of Rupi Kaur’s Milk and Honey or the soulful lyricism of Najwa Zebian, you will find a home in these pages.

The Spark She Saved is more than a poetry book—it is a testament to the quiet, enduring courage of the heart.