After nearly two weeks of fear and sleepless nights in the NICU, Emily believed the hardest chapter was finally behind her. Her newborn daughter, Nora, was coming home, and that should have been the beginning of something softer.
Instead, the moment she placed the baby in her grandfather Walter’s arms, the past came rushing back in a way no one expected.
Nora had her father Caleb’s dark curls and cleft chin. But what stopped Walter cold were her eyes: one bright blue, the other so dark it was nearly black. Emily had noticed the unusual feature before, but doctors had simply suggested it may have come from someone in the family.
She had no idea how right that answer would turn out to be.