Reborn (Solrelm Series, #5)

Why did she and only three of her relatives not age at all? Why did that have to bite others to survive? Why did she suffer if she didn't terrify other people by using fangs in their flesh? After decades of wondering why she was still alive, Rena finally found the amazement of living so long.

She reveled in the many changes in society, the advancement of cultures and technology in the world and accepted the privilege of being one of few was worth a few moments of regret each day. And then it all came crashing down upon her when she was taken and held on an island with many other women.

Those holding them prisoner only wanted them for one reason — to have children that carried their rare, unusual DNA. Everything became distorted as she withdrew inside herself to survive it. Months later she's in another realm with others like her and her father and brothers are there as well.

She was too numb to find the joy in finally having answers as she forced herself to function routinely so she wouldn't see that look in their eyes when they saw her. The pity, the compassion was more than she could bear.

Giving birth to a child —that she did love but couldn't hold or look at without reliving the heinous things she had suffered while captive, she struggled through every moment of every day to feel even a slight trace or normalcy. Would she ever feel anything but fear?

Living several lifetimes paralyzed by trauma was a waste of the long life she had been given —she knew this but couldn't do anything to overcome it. When she started to navigate coping and believed for a few moments each day that she could continue to force herself to pretend she was living a normal life, fate unbalanced her again by giving her a mate.

A partner that was deemed her other half, her one and only, the person that was just for her to have her happily-ever-after. But it's too late for her and now she will have to live with knowing she is destroying someone else's life. How cruel was it that she would now