Glow From The Spark (Rich Series #3) COMPLETED

Kallist Cyrilovich Sudarev moves to Canada with his girlfriend, Sofie Aziza Delacroix, alongside their families, in what once felt like a life built on trust and quiet promises. Sofie, a future medical technology student with knowledge in science and medicine, seems grounded until grief begins to unravel everything when her father falls seriously ill with cancer and repeated heart attacks.

As pressure builds at home, distance grows between her and Kallist. Communication weakens, and misunderstandings slowly turn into something neither of them can repair. Overwhelmed by family responsibility and emotional conflict, Sofie makes choices that complicate their relationship, involving Dave in a situation that becomes unfair and one-sided without her fully realizing the damage.

Kallist is kept in the dark until everything collapses in the garden. Too late for explanations, too late for repair. What follows is a sudden, one-sided breakup that Kallist never truly agrees to and only understands when it is already over.

Left with silence and everything left unsaid, Kallist's life fractures. He meets Marei Rosamire Koren, a ballerina and poet with white hair and ocean-blue eyes. Cold yet childish, graceful yet broken, haunted by sleep paralysis and fear of the dark. Their first connection happens during the first snowfall beside a white deer, where she gives him a letter and a rose, and he gives her a bunny in return. Small exchanges that linger like fading memories.

Trying to survive the aftermath, Kallist joins a gang for protection, only to uncover betrayal and buried truths that destroy his belief in loyalty. Grief returns deeper than before, surrounded by lakes, sea lions, butterflies, and Lanavan. His closest friend, a brother by heart who stood with him through everything.

And in the end, the question lingers...

What would be Lanavan's payment for the girl's love for him. And was it really love at all or just something they called love while trying to survive it?