Chapter 1

Ava Moreno worked in a big New York City hospital.

She was a reproductive endocrinologist, very skilled.

But some rich people knew her by another name: "The Heirloom Weaver."

At night, she did something different.

A family tradition, old and almost forgotten.

It mixed modern hormone knowledge with old herbs and special body rhythms.

This came from her grandmother, a curandera in New Mexico.

Ava used this to help recently dead men have children.

The fees were huge.

All the money went to a foundation.

It preserved these old healing ways.

Her grandmother, Abuela Elena, managed it.

Abuela Elena was old, respected in her small New Mexico town.

She held all the family' s healing secrets, the wisdom of the "Heirloom Weaving."

The foundation Ava paid for supported Abuela' s work and a small clinic.

Ava checked her encrypted phone. No new messages about her usual work.

Just hospital schedules.

She thought about Abuela, the dry air of New Mexico, the scent of herbs.

A world away from the sterile, sharp smells of the hospital.

Her work as The Heirloom Weaver was a secret, a heavy one.

But it funded something vital.

It kept a legacy alive.