As Civil War between the Republic and the Separatists rages across the
galaxy, nowhere is the fighting more fierce than on the swamp world of
Drongar, where a beleaguered mobile hospital unit wages a never-ending
war of its own . . .
A surgeon who covers his despair with wise-cracks; another who faces
death and misery head-on, venting his emotions through beautiful music .
. . A nurse with her heart in her work and her eye on a doctor . . . A
Jedi Padawan on a healing mission without her Master . . . These are the
core members of a tiny med unit serving the jungle world of Drongar,
where battle is waged over the control of a priceless native plant, and
an endless line of medlifters brings in the wounded and dying--mostly
clone troopers, but also soldiers of all species.
While the healers work desperately to save lives, others plot secretly
to profit from the war--either by dealing on the black market or by
manipulating the events of the war itself. In the end, though, all will
face individual tests, and only those of compassionate hearts and
staunch spirits can hope to survive to fight another day.