Following a trail of hints across the galaxy, Luke Skywalker proceeds his quest to find the reasons for Jacen Solo’s dark downfall also to win redemption for the Jedi Purchase. Sojourning among the secret Aing-Tii monks has left Luke and his boy Ben without real answers, only the suspicion that the revelations they look for lie in the forbidden gets to of the distant Maw Cluster. There, hidden in the galaxy in a labyrinth of black holes, dwell the Mind Walkers: those whose capacity to transcend about Abyss: Celebrity Wars (Fate from the Jedi) their physiques and be one with the Force is really as seductive and intoxicating as it is normally potentially fatal. But it could be Luke’s only way to the truth.

Meanwhile, in Coruscant, the battle of wills between Galactic Alliance Key of State Natasi Daala and the Jedi Order is definitely escalating. Outraged on the carbonite freezing of youthful Jedi Knights Valin and Jysella Horn after their inexplicable mental breakdowns, the Jedi are driven to defy Daala’s martial methods, override Council Master Kenth Hamner’s wavering command, and deal on their own terms using the epidemic of madness preying on their ranks. As Han and Leia Single, with their little girl Jaina, join the fight to protect even more stricken Knights from arrest, Jedi healers competition to discover a treatment for the quickly growing affliction. But non-e of them recognize the blaster barrel is already swinging within their direction-and Key Daala is about to pull the cause.

Nor do Luke and Ben, deep in the Maw Cluster and driving their Force abilities beyond known limitations, realize how close they are-to the Sith strike squad bent on exterminating the Skywalkers, to a nexus of dark-side energy unprecedented in its power and its hunger, also to an explosive confrontation between opposing wielders from the Force from which only one Master-good or evil-can emerge alive.