Signet "first printing" August 1983 paperback. Cover by ???, 190 pages, $2.50 cover price. Condition is near-Fine or better: tight and square with flat spine, mild uniform age tanning, 1" fold-trace at upper left corner of back cover. No stamps, marks or writing - a very clean copy that looks new/unread.

Third in the "Dancers" series by Ann Maxwell: Dancer's Illusion. Ann Maxwell started writing SF in 1975, and is probably best known as a romance writer under the name Elizabeth Lowell. For more details, I found a good bio on Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Lowell
(That bio also includes a link to her website.)

[From the back cover]: THE SHIP'S COMPUTER HAS CHOSEN-
and now Rheba the fire dancer and her Bre'n mentor Kirtn must fulfill the next part of their ongoing mission - to return a shipload of fellow ex-slaves to their widely scattered home planets. Their current destination - Yhelle, a world where reality is far too fleeting for anyone but a master illusionist to grasp. Yhelle is considered the most civilized place in the galaxy and their brief stopeover should be pure pleasure. But it doesn't take Rheba, Kirtn, and their two Yhelle crewmates long to discover that beneath the paradiselike surface of this society lurks an evil that is growing more powerful each day, a seductive darkness that feeds on love and kills with ecstasy...