Gracen Ylira Odvark “Grace” (22) is Luna’s coworker at the bookshop One More Chapter. Unlike Luna, she’s actually perfectly content to work at this job forever. She loves books—everything about them: the covers, the characters, the way they smell, the way people cry and laugh and bond over them, and just the way they feel in her hands when she journeys into a different world for hours at a time.
Her dad is a single parent and has been since Grace was small and her mom walked out on them. It was an extremely difficult time for both of them, since her dad was (and still is) a recovering alcoholic. They don’t have any direct contact with her, but Grace did some digging and found a website where her mom sells abstract art, a lot of which Grace is pretty sure is inspired by their broken family. So when she can, she buys her work—anonymously, because if her mother doesn’t want to be a part of their lives, then Grace won’t force her to.