**In this essential Star Wars Legends novel, Mace Windu must journey
to his long-forgotten homeworld to confront a terrifying mystery with
dire personal consequences.
**
The jungle planet of Haruun Kal, homeworld of the legendary Jedi Master
Mace Windu, has become a battleground in the increasing hostilities
between the Republic and the renegade Separatist movement. The Jedi
Council has sent Depa Billaba--Mace's former Padawan and fellow Council
member--to Haruun Kal to train the local tribesmen as a guerrilla
resistance force. But now the Separatists have pulled back, and Depa has
not returned. The only clue to her disappearance is a cryptic recording
left at the scene of a brutal massacre: a recording that hints of
madness and murder, and the darkness in the jungle . . . a recording in
Depa's own voice.
Mace Windu trained Depa. Only he can find her. Only he can learn what
has changed her. Only he can stop her. He will leave behind the Republic
he serves, the civilization he believes in, everything but his passion
for peace and his devotion to his former Padawan. And he will learn the
terrible price that must be paid when keepers of the peace are forced to
make war. . . .