The Lunas—Lucely, her father, and the ghosts of her deceased relatives—are a tight-knit and loving family that values its elders, ancestors, and culture. Lucely loves all the Lunas, and belonging to the family means a great deal to her and powers her quest to keep them safe.

Lucely’s father runs a tour of haunted places in St. Augustine. Lucely helps him by play-acting the part of a haunted ghost. She also worries about him: He works hard but struggles to make enough money to pay for them both. Simon’s sadness over the departure of his beloved wife some years earlier drags him down, but he never ceases to care for his daughter nor she for him. Wishing not to worry one another, sometimes they try to hide their feelings, but this tends to fail because Lucely and Simon are talented detectors of mood changes. The result is that knowing each is concerned for the other’s emotional well-being, they’re even more devoted to each other.

One of Lucely’s goals is to help her father’s business do better so they can stay in their ancestral home. The house is the center of the entire Luna family. The bank threatens to foreclose it, but this would mean the end of many generations of Lunas in the house, and it would threaten the ghosts, who live as fireflies in the property’s

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