Ha ha...they have a complicated relationship - it is a love story, but it has the undercurrent metaphor about glowing.

Humans do glow - Google 'angel's glow 'and the American Civil War - It's a fact, but there's the interplay of the ghost girl - What does she mean? Why is Jay haunted?

BTW, it's also a slice of my life recently, as if I'm taking the reader along with me on that jaunt into the autumn countryside. We live in the waterfall capital of the world...literally :)