Ava's Christmas Miracle

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She wasn't looking for love. She wasn't even looking for Christmas.</strong></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But hope has a way of knocking on the door when the heart finally whispers enough.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dr. Ava Morgan has spent ten years being the strong one. The capable one. The woman everyone calls when they need something-and she always delivers.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She raised two kids alone after her husband's sudden death. She built a career helping other people's children find their way. She showed up held it together and never let anyone see her break.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But this Christmas Ava is exhausted. Her adult children expect her to host the perfect holiday while treating her like she's always available. Her job drains every ounce of energy she has left. And the loneliness she's been ignoring for a decade is becoming impossible to bear.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Then one stormy night her car breaks down on a deserted road.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And Malachi Rhodes stops to help.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He's a former firefighter who now runs a community youth center. He's kind steady and emotionally present in ways Ava has forgotten men could be. He doesn't try to fix her. He doesn't rush her. He just </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>sees</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> her-the woman beneath the armor the person everyone else takes for granted.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>As Christmas approaches Ava finds herself opening doors she thought she'd locked forever. But her children don't understand. Her fear won't let go. And learning to receive love after years of only giving feels like the hardest thing she's ever done.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can a woman who's spent a decade surviving finally give herself permission to live?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Can love find you when you've stopped believing it exists?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And what does a miracle look like when it comes wrapped in snow?</span></p>