star wars novel. desert planet with creepy parasites

[bratfarrar]

Okay, I'm on the verge of concluding that I somehow made up this book, but here goes:

• Star Wars novel, set after the original trilogy of movies
• Luke Skywalker as a main character
• A significant portion of the story took place on some sort of desert/desolate world
• The identifying feature is that the world was home to these creepy sub-cutaneous parasites. The bigger they were, the more they could influence the host. I think there was a scene were Luke discovered that someone had basically been entirely taken over by the parasites and was pretty much just a puppet
• Also, once you're on the planet and outside of a sealed room they're pretty much impossible to avoid picking up, so even Luke winds up with a whole bunch of them
• I think eventually he managed to purge them out using the Force?

Anyhow, I have no details about the plot, or what other characters were in the story or anything. Pretty sure it was written prior to 2004, but looking through Wookiepedia's list of novels yields nothing that matches what I remember.

Help me, findthatbook, you're my only hope!


ETA: Ha, never mind--I post this and then five minutes later figured out that it's Planet of Twilight by Barbara Hambly. So nice to know it's not just some weird nightmare I dreamed up on my own.

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[bluelittlegirl]

I'm going to have to read this now; I love Barbara Hambly.