Veteran Star Wars author Kathy Tyers continues the epic struggle between good and evil as the New Republic, led by the battered but still unbroken Jedi, braces for the next onslaught of its merciless alien foe.

The merciless Yuuzhan Vong have unleashed a savage creature capable of finding and killing Jedi Knights, and Leia Organa Solo is given the ultimatum to either reveal where the secret Jedi base is or be responsible for blasting millions of refugee ships into oblivion.