I am writing a series that reaches across the centuries where souls search for one another for their betterment or for not.  As the characters lives are intertwined in pleasure and pain, love and hate; the readers' notions of what makes a heroine, hero, and villain are challenged.   The idea of soul mates is an ideology that has long been romanticized.  This simplistic version of reincarnation has generally abandoned the possibility that the influence of free will could provide the catalyst in which we don't always seek out those that are best for us.   Is the hunt always about satisfying unrequited love?  Perhaps the obsession is something darker... and more sinister.