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Sky Court

Casey Black-a seventeen-year-old butch lesbian-lives a quiet life with her grandfather in a small, central-Illinois town. When not at school or working at the Wise Owl Café, she spends her time at home in her grandfather’s subsidized apartment complex, Sky Court. But when seven-year-old Patricia Dale goes missing, Casey joins the search for the girl, despite the objections of her grandfather and her laid-back boss.

Fellow Sky Court residents and local high-school basketball stars Steve Jones and Trevor Morrison rarely interact with Casey. But that changes once Casey discovers the secret they are hiding. Amid washing dishes and helping search for the missing child, Casey falls for another Sky Court resident, Rowena Miller, a former cheerleader who returned a different person after a semester abroad in France. Soon, the lives of Casey, Rowena, Steve, and Trevor intertwine in ways they never expected.

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Author

Faith Mosley

Faith Mosley has been telling stories since her childhood, when she and her brother would type up their tales on their beloved orange Olivetti typewriter and then carefully bind them together into books. Over the years, she has worked many jobs including dishwasher, AmeriCorps recruiter, and newspaper reporter. She earned a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Iowa and a bachelor’s in liberal arts from Western Illinois University. Her work was included in the short story anthology Lez Talk: A Collection of Lesbian Short Fiction (BLF Press, 2016) and Swagger: A Celebration of the Butch Experience (Flashpoint Publications, 2024). Sky Court (Circuit Breaker Books, 2022) is her first book.

Praise for Sky Court

“Faith Mosley’s Sky Court is a fabulous read. Combining the pleasures of the noir voiceover with a cinematic ability to drop in on all its key characters, Sky Court keeps us binge- reading. All the characters and story threads remind us that the biggest mysteries reside in the human heart.”

ELIZABETH STARK
Author of Shy Girl

“In Sky Court, Faith Mosley weaves a powerful and haunting narrative. Mosley creates a rich cast of flawed characters that are believable and relatable, with a protagonist that you’ll be rooting for the whole way.”

KEVIN DUNN
Author of Vicious Is My Middle Name

“Sky Court is a young adult mystery with a twist. The twist being Casey, a high-school age Black woman who embodies butchness. Sky Court is the kind of book that would have been lifesaving to me when I was a young and struggling butch lesbian.”-