Even though I have not read books 1-4, this was a good read. It helped to have a synopsis on the title page.

Danny went to the mansion to help his deceased grandpa. Danny is now trapped inside the mansion and needs to get out. He achieves this by jumping out of a window into a cemetery , a long way down. Once outside the mansion, the ghostly captain’s curse is broken, allowing all of the other ghosts to leave the mansion. The captain now plans to pillage New Orleans. The captain wants Danny to help him find the treasure that was supposed to have been inside the mansion, but was not there.

Danny “let [his fear] drive and motivate [him] instead of control [him]” when he jumped from the window, freeing all of the other ghosts. When captain rethreatens Danny and the ghosts, the ghostly bride Constance throws a battle ax at the captain ending him.

“The mansion itself is the treasure…but he was so obsessed with being rich that the captain never saw that.”

Grandpa reintroduces Danny to his ghost grandmother, before they  leave to haunt the world. Then Danny returns home and helps his parents grieve together as a family, instead of separately.

Thanks to the synopsis on the title page this book could be enjoyed by itself, but I am now wondering what lies inside the first four books.