Forty years after the Battle of Yavin a dangerous new era in the Star
Wars epic begins – the revelations are shocking, the stakes desperate,
and the enemy everywhere.
As civil war threatens the
unity of the Galactic Alliance, Han and Leia Solo have enraged their
families and the Jedi by joining the Corellian insurgents. But the
Solos draw the line when they discover the rebels’ plot to make the
Hapan Consortium an ally – which rests upon Hapan nobles murdering their
pro-Alliance queen and her daughter.
Yet the Solos’ selfless
determination to save the queen cannot dispel the inescapable
consequences of their actions, that will pit mother against son and
brother against sister in the battles ahead. For as Jacen Solo’s dark
powers grow stronger under the Dark Jedi Lumiya, and his influence over
Ben Skywalker becomes more insidious, Luke’s concern for his nephew
forces him into a life-and-death struggle against his fiercest foe, and
Han and Leia Solo find themselves at the mercy of their deadliest enemy... their son.