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.