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The Love Had Teeth
Paperback
AbuseDeath & DyingGeneral Poetry
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 7 2026
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.71
Height: 0.54 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
THE LOVE HAD TEETH is a darkly intimate collection of poetry and confessional prose about survival, transformation, and the long journey back to the self after emotional devastation.
Written with sharp honesty and haunting tenderness, Renee Lynn explores the psychological aftermath of loving someone who could not love gently. These pieces move through grief, longing, hypervigilance, identity loss, rage, awakening, and ultimately rebirth, not as separate stories, but as stages of becoming.
Set against imagery of fire, storms, bayous, crowns, teeth, and moonlit water, this collection examines what happens when survival hardens into armor, when love becomes self-erasure, and when discernment threatens to turn into bitterness. But beneath every wound lies another question:
What if healing is not about becoming who you were before?
What if it is about becoming someone wiser, softer, and stronger all at once?
At the heart of the collection is the belief that survival is not shameful, love is not weakness, and softness does not mean surrender.
For readers who have experienced narcissistic abuse, emotional manipulation, trauma bonds, heartbreak, or the painful process of rebuilding themselves after psychological harm, THE LOVE HAD TEETH offers language for experiences that are often difficult to explain aloud.
This is not a book about staying broken.
It is about carrying the fire without letting it consume you.
About learning the difference between being loved and being handled.
About becoming dangerous to what hurt you without losing your humanity in the process.
Raw, mythic, feminine, and unflinchingly real, THE LOVE HAD TEETH is for the women who survived the storm and are finally ready to call themselves more than victims.
They are survivors.
They are witnesses.
They are inheritance.
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