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## REBIRTH: GAENGSAENG
Yeong-sik Han did not come to America searching for love.
After losing every woman who ever felt like home, the Korean widower builds his life around one rule: **survive without needing anyone.**
He works. He studies. He keeps his apartment dark, his routines strict, and his heart locked behind years of grief. Happiness is dangerous. Attachment always ends in loss. And love is a luxury he refuses to risk twice.
Then Polly Bennett walks away from nine pounds of fish-and straight into his carefully controlled life.
Polly is a vibrant Black bakery owner with flour on her clothes, laughter in her voice, and wounds hidden beneath every joke. After a former lover betrayed her, stole from her, and nearly destroyed the business she sacrificed everything to build, Polly learned how to turn pain into sugar, survival into success, and heartbreak into light.
When she recognizes the loneliness Yeong-sik is determined to hide, she decides he needs a friend.
He disagrees.
But Polly does not disappear easily.
What begins with shared bus rides, forgotten fish, and an unwanted friendship becomes late-night conversations, cultural misunderstandings, Korean language lessons, Southern desserts, and a love neither of them believed they could survive.
But when Yeong-sik is called back to Busan to fulfill a promise, their future fractures across two countries.
He cannot abandon his duty.
She will not erase the life she fought to rebuild.
Can two wounded hearts create one future without sacrificing themselves-or will grief steal the rebirth unfolding before their eyes?
**REBIRTH: GAENGSAENG** is an emotionally powerful Korean and Black interracial romance about grief, healing, chosen family, cultural connection, second chances, and discovering that home is not always a place.
Sometimes, home is the person who teaches you how to live again.