This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Maya Alvarez is ten years old, and she is not afraid of anything. Except the dark. Which is a real problem, because her bedroom hallway is eleven steps long, every step is an ambush, and last night her own shadow waved back at her. Then the streetlight on the corner starts flickering in a pattern — three quick, three slow, three quick — and Dev, the nine-year-old inventor two streets over, counts the flickers and decides they mean something. Luna, who is only eight, can SEE what is making them: the Gloomlings. Shadow creatures that feed on fear and make the dark scary on purpose. With the help of Mr. Wick, the lighthouse keeper who has been expecting them all along, Maya, Dev, and Luna form the Nightlight Brigade — flashlights, mirrors, cookies after every mission, and one rule that matters most: everyone deserves to see morning. When the Great Gloom rises to swallow the moon itself, three kids with more courage than sense will learn what bravery really is. It is not the absence of fear. It is lighting the lamp anyway.