Fighting alongside the Corellian rebels, Han and Leia are locked in a battle against their child Jacen, who increases more powerful and more dangerous with each passing day. Nothing at all can quit Jacen’s determination to bring peace with a glorious Galactic Alliance victory-whatever the price.

While Luke grieves the loss of his beloved wife and handles his guilt over killing the wrong person in retaliation, Jaina, Jag, and Zekk hunt for the real assassin, unaware that at fault commands Sith powers that can cloud their minds and misdirect their attacks-and actually turn them back again on themselves.

As Luke and Ben Skywalker battle to get their place among the chaos, Jacen, shunned by relatives and buddies, launches an invasion to recovery the just person still devoted to him. But with the battle raging on, as well as the galaxy developing even more turbulent and riotous, there’s no issue that it is Jacen who is most wished: lifeless or alive.