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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.

I am trying to find a book I read when I was a young teen, that I found in the teen section of my local library. This would have been 1999-2005 era, though the book may have been published before that. It was a fantasy novel taking place in another world, and the societies involved were more of a desert tribal people. There were a male and female protagonist, and it was a love story. In my recollections, I am not sure how much this was actually appropriate for a young reader, as I recall their being some very dark and near death scenes. There was magic, but not a flashy spell casting kind, and their was a romance between the protagonists (who were either older teens or young adults). I want to say one of them was cursed, and there were scenes where they separated due to misunderstandings (some cultural) and they definitely had to overcome societal/magical/warring clans to come together. I of course remember no ones name, nor the title...

can anyone help??

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