Part 4, Winter's Cold Truth: Chapter 4, Mr. Moultry's Castle, Chapter 5, Sixteen Drops of Blood, and Chapter 7, The Stranger Among Us Summary

In chapter 4 of part 4, the Mackensons are invited to a reception for the Lady in Bruton. While there, Cory and his mother get a personal tour of the new museum that is due to open the day after Christmas. While looking at a picture of the girls who died in a church bombing in Birmingham he realizes they are the same girls he has been dreaming about for months. Looking at the picture, Cory puts something together from the dreams and tells the Lady.

On Christmas Eve, a plane from the local air force base flies low over Zephyr and drops a bomb on the home of...