Chapter 5 Summary

When Tracy returns home later than anticipated, Uncle Cory chastised her; however, Aunt Irene offers her comfort when she stomps off to her room. She tells Tracy to invite Brad to their home on the weekend. Tracy wishes her aunt a good night and closes the door to her room, where she is filled with sadness over the loss of her mother and her life in New York. Although she has never met Gavin Brummer, Tracy views him as a traitor and an evil man.

Meanwhile, Brad lies awake at the motel. He sleeps fitfully and dreams about his friend Jamie, whom he had invited to come to Winfield. Jamie told Brad that his plan would not work. Brad thinks of how he told Jamie and Laura Brummer that he was going to his father's old cabin in the Pecos Mountains. Although Laura...