Destiny had made Owen Deathstalker a rebel hero within an empire choked by tyranny. Embracing his warrior lineage with regard to freedom, he stoked the flames of revolution, gathering the forces that one day must strike against Imperial power. That day offers come.

With his valiant compatriots Hazel d’Ark and Jack Random, Owen must now bring the uprising to a fiery conclusion. From the rebel strongholds of Mistworld and Virimonde to the Empire’s mighty center on earth of Golgotha, the destiny of humanity now depends upon a clash of hands across light-years of space. But Deathstalker’s desperate cause will need a lot more than an military of courageous fighters to succeed-for the cunning Empress has some wicked surprises to unleash .