No one ever saw Margaret or Daniel again. Some believed they had found refuge in another town, raising their child quietly away from the world. Others insisted the letter was a hoax, nothing more than another layer of the strange tale.

But for those who had seen the ultrasound screen glow with a heartbeat that should never have been possible, the memory stayed.

And sometimes, late at night in Pine Hollow, people still whisper about the grandmother who carried a miracle, and the young man who walked into the unknown with her.