Forty years following the Battle of Yavin a dangerous brand-new era in the Superstar Wars epic begins-the revelations are surprising, the stakes desperate, and the foe everywhere.

As civil battle threatens the unity from the Galactic Alliance, Han and Leia Solo have enraged their families and the Jedi by joining the Corellian insurgents. However the Solos attract the line if they discover the rebels’ story to make the Hapan Consortium an ally-which rests upon Hapan nobles murdering their pro-Alliance queen and her girl.

Yet the Solos’ selfless determination to save lots of the queen cannot dispel the inescapable consequences of their activities, that may pit mom against son and sibling against sister in the fights ahead. For simply because Jacen Solo’s dark power grow stronger beneath the Dark Jedi Lumiya, and his influence over Ben Skywalker turns into even 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 foe . their son.