A Dance of Dusklight

Preorder Available Now on Amazon
On Sale Everywhere 14th of July

cover artwork for the book A Dance of Dusklight, but with all the text removed. The scene shows Celani—a pretty plus-sized woman with wavy blue hair—on the branch of an enormous, otherworldly-looking blue-and-pink tree, pressing herself flat against part of it. She's hiding, glancing back over her shoulder. In the background we see more of the Tree's branches, crystalline and blue. The sky is a dusky orange.

A Dance of Dusklight by J.E. Holmes is the first in a new series for adults that takes a sapphic fantasy story and gives it the flair of a spy novel.

It can be preordered on Amazon here, and it will be on Bookshop here, too.

Celani is the ideal spy: charming, clever, graceful. And a telepath. 

Her unique magic makes her the best among those at the Dusklight Tree, where she lives under the care of the enigmatic Master. Her missions allow her to see the world, have adventure, even fall in love . . . if only for a few days at a time.

When a mission sends her after an abducted man, within his mind she finds a dangerous secret: a powerful spell she barely understands, and it attaches itself to her. She aborts her mission and barely escapes with her life. She then realizes that she can’t trust the Master with the spell now dwelling within her, and if she can’t trust him with this, why should she trust him with anything else?

Her next mission is clear-deceive the Master and escape the Dusklight Tree forever. Even if it means lying to her childhood friend and leaving behind everything she’s ever known. She wants to see the world on her own, have adventures of her choosing, and fall in love for real.

The Master won’t let her go easily. To safeguard her stolen spell and her own life, she will have to evade capture and fight back against the Master’s agents. Her own friends.

You can join the Clueless Luca Patreon for art and book updates.

Leave a comment