The Missing Christmas Ring

Just few weeks before Christmas, single mother Nora Callahan faces an impossible choice: watch her seven-year-old daughter's Christmas dreams crumble, or pawn the last piece of family jewelry she owns-her late grandmother's vintage engagement ring

Desperate and out of options, Nora walks into Gabriel's Pawn & Antiques and accepts three hundred dollars for the ring, determined to work every extra shift she can to buy it back before the thirty-day hold expires on Christmas Eve

As Nora exhausts herself working double shifts at the library, Gabriel finds himself drawn to her in ways he can't explain. But when he discovers that the ring is worth far more than what he gave her, he is faced with an impossible dilemma.

Just as an unexpected connection begins to bloom between them, Nora's manipulative ex-husband returns, determined to use their daughter as a prop to impress his wealthy new fiancée. Between mounting financial pressure, her ex's threats of a custody battle, and the ticking clock on the ring's buyback deadline, Nora must decide what matters most-and whether accepting help means surrendering the independence she's fought so hard to maintain.

But with only days until Christmas Eve and still short of the money she needs, will Nora lose her grandmother's ring forever-or find something even more precious in its place?