Lorenzo Sierra details battle with COVID-19 in book, ‘Fight like Hell’

Former Arizona State Representative Lorenzo Sierra is out with a new book detailing his harrowing encounter with COVID-19, which threatened his life and strengthened his will to live. Sierra also wrote about his wife’s fight with breast cancer.

Sierra joined “Horizonte” to discuss the book titled, “Fight Like Hell: Love, Politics and the will to Live.”

For Sierra, it wasn’t just about the idea of dying, it was the fear of “not living.” Sierra was “petrified of not living,” he said.

On top of his encounter with COVID-19, Sierra also experienced guilt when faced with the prospect of making his wife Rhonda a two-time widow. Sierra said he told her, “I promise I’m going to fight like hell to come back to you.”

“Fight Like Hell: Love, Politics and the will to Live.” delves into how Lorenzo and Rhonda’s relationship deepened in the face of Rhonda’s fight against late-stage breast cancer and Lorenzo’s near-fatal fight against COVID-19. With being able to tell this story, this “served as a bit of therapy for [Sierra] as well.”

According to Sierra, at the book’s heart, it is truly a love story. “We are all broken. Grace is the glue that binds us. We found grace within eachother and the brokenness we came into it almost fit like puzzle pieces and allowed us to go through some very catastrophic things,” Sierra said.

When asked what prompted him to write this book and to tell this story in particular Sierra responded, “It’s telling that story of who we are as Americans, as latinos, as the very fabric of what this country is. and those are the stories that aren’t being told right now,” Sierra said.

“Fight Like Hell: Love, Politics and the will to Live” will launch on October 14, 2025, and Sierra’s book can be purchased online.