The Lost & The Broken: The Art of Falling

Dr. Ava Shaw is brilliant at healing everyone but herself. By day, she holds her patients’ grief with steady hands. By night, she returns to a penthouse that echoes with silence, pouring drinks she doesn’t taste and speaking to a photograph of a father she can’t let go.

Then Rob walks into her office.

He’s court-mandated, quiet, and nothing like her other patients. He’s honest in ways that disarm her. He’s broken in ways she recognizes. And for the first time in months, Ava feels seen.

As their sessions end and something deeper begins, Ava allows herself to hope again — to want, to fall, to believe that after so much loss, she might finally be allowed to keep something.

But love has a way of asking questions we’re not ready to answer. And sometimes, the hardest person to save is yourself.