No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burned to ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts a call for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost. Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first to meet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaders who, once allied with the now dead Emperor, are approaching Imperial space with only one goal; total domination. Princess Leia sees the mission as an opportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for the Alliance. But it assumes even greater importance when a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to Luke Skywalker with the message that he must go to Bakura-or risk losing everything the Rebels have fought so desperately to achieve. Features a bonus section following the novel that includes a primer on the Star Wars expanded universe, and over half a dozen excerpts from some of the most popular Star Wars books of the last thirty years!

In the aftermath of one tragedy,will a young Jedi's search for redemptionlead to yet another?There is no place else to channel the flood of refugees fleeing the murderous Yuuzhan Vong but the overcrowded planet Duro, poisoned by centuries of technological excess. Fortunately a deal is struck: In exchange for a new home, the refugees will work to restore the planet to health, under the watchful eye of Leia Organa Solo.While tempers flare between the Duros and the New Republic, Han Solo, his son, Jacen, and the Ryn called Droma arrive to keep the peace. They are unaware that Leia is on Duro . . . and that Luke, Mara, and Anakin are on their way, searching for a missing Jedi apprentice. And none realize that the Yuuzhan Vong have chosen this embattled planet as the next target in their brutal coreward thrust.Now, as the fragile stability on Duro threatens to collapse into violence, Jacen Solo must face his greatest dilemma: At what...

A planet on the edge of life. A woman on the edge of hope. When microbiologist Graysha Brady-Phillips accepts an offer to assist in terraforming the planet Goddard, she does so for two reasons: She needs the hazardous duty pay, and she hopes that the planet's colonists can provide a cure for the genetic disorder that is slowly killing her.But such genetic engineering has been banned by the powerful Eugenics Board for decades, and Graysha is that board's high commissioner's daughter. When the colonists discover this, she isn't surprised to be ostracized, for the potential penalties for conducting their radical research can include death. Graysha tries to pursue her profession and befriend the colonists, but soon she is dodging attempts on her life.Even as Graysha questions whether her hope is worth the peril, she realizes she has grown attached to her new world. But that world is being threatened, and Graysha must decide what she is willing to sacrifice: her security and...