An Accidental Love Triangle by Annabelle Jay
In Luminosity, the fifth and final book of the Sun Dragon Series, transgender teen Luke finds out that she is the child of an incubus determined to kill her in order to gain enough power to destroy the universe. The classmate who tells Luke about the secret magical world—including the wizards, dragons, and her own people (the Igreefee)—is Luke’s crush, Egret. Egret is a lesbian who has no idea that Luke is actually a girl, and even if she knew the truth and felt the same, Egret doesn’t “do relationships.”
After Egret takes Luke to the wizarding “Mansion” to keep her safe, Luke ends up seeking comfort from a witch named Rochelle—and somehow, Rochelle ends up as her girlfriend.
In this scene, Egret returns to the Mansion to find Luke in Rochelle’s room. When Rochelle returns, Luke realizes just how complicated the situation has gotten:
“I’m fine,” I assured her, though I didn’t let go. “I made a new friend, and she’s been taking care of me.”
“Good. Now come, we need to meet with the Council and tell them—”
“What’s going on here?” Rochelle must have come up the stairs while Egret and I spoke, and I wondered if she’d heard me call her a friend. She held a blue china plate in her hands with two chocolate croissants still steaming from the oven, and her blue apron was coated in chocolate flecks and flour.
“Rochelle, this is Egret, my friend.”
“Oh, another girl who’s a friend?” Rochelle asked, answering the question of whether she’d heard me or not. “Glad to know I’m not the only one.”
Egret looked between us. “Did I miss something?”
“Apparently not,” Rochelle said. She turned to leave, but I called her back.
“Wait a minute, this is a huge misunderstanding. Rochelle is my girlfriend as of last night.”
Egret’s eyebrows rose, but she knew enough to keep her mouth shut.
“And Rochelle, Egret really is just a friend.”
“I swear,” Egret said sincerely. “All this”—she waved her hand in front of my crotch—“is not for me, no matter how much I like the guy.”
Had Egret just admitted she liked me? I glanced at her face, but if she realized what she’d said, she didn’t show it. Rochelle, on the other hand, looked instantly regretful. Her face turned even redder than normal, and her gaze dropped to the blue marble floor.
“Oh. Wow. I feel like an idiot.”
“No worries.” Egret took the plate out of her limp hands. “But if you don’t mind, I’d love one of these croissants.”
“Of course. Have them all.” Rochelle seemed disoriented; Egret had that effect on people. “Luke, there was something else I came here to tell you… oh, I remember. The Council has summoned you to their private advising rooms to talk about the demon problem. If you follow me, I’ll take you both to them.”
Luke soon realizes that she can’t tell Rochelle and Egret who she really is without risking both relationships. At the same time, she can’t keep the truth a secret forever, especially as she learns more about her own unique powers.
Will Egret and Rochelle accept Luke? And if they do, which girl will Luke end up with—assuming the incubi don’t destroy the world before she has the chance?
As the epic saga of the Sun Dragon series draws to a close, transgender teenager Luke must face her destiny to decide the fate of her world. Not only is Luke a girl born into the wrong body, she is the universe’s last Artist: a person with the ability to draw things into existence. When she comes face-to-face with an incubus who might be her father, she learns it falls to her—along with allies from the wizard’s Council and the dragon clan leaders—to prevent the incubi from destroying the world. If that isn’t enough, she needs to find a way out of a relationship with her girlfriend that she never intended, go after the Igreefee royal she really wants to be with, and decide if the time is right to transition physically into the girl she’s always been inside.
The journey that began with Allanah’s first Sun Dragon is coming to its thrilling conclusion. The dragons, wizards, sorceresses, and birds you’ve come to know and love will reunite for their biggest battle yet—one that will decide their destiny at last.
Cover Artist: Stef Masciandaro
Releasing Feb 20, 2018 by Harmony Ink
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If there’s one thing author Annabelle Jay believes with all her heart, it’s that there is no such thing as too many dragons in a book. As fantasy writer with few other hobbies—does being bribed to run with her partner or dancing awkwardly in the kitchen count?—she spends every day following her imagination wherever it leads her.
A hippie born in the wrong decade, Annabelle has a peace sign tattoo and a penchant for hugging trees. Occasionally she takes breaks from her novels to play with her pets: Jon Snow, the albino rabbit who is constantly trying to escape; Stevie, the crested gecko that climbs glass with the hairs on its toes; and Luigi, the green tree python that lives at the foot of her bed despite her best efforts to talk her partner out of the idea.
During her day job as a professor of English, Annabelle is often assumed to be a fellow student playing a prank on the class—that is, until she hands out the syllabus. When people stop mistaking her for a recent high school graduate, she will probably be very sad.
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