More than one thousand years before'Luke Skywalker, a'dark age'grips the galaxy as an ineffectual'Republic'abandons entire systems to'Sith'control. A newly'knighted Jedi'on her first mission, eighteen-year-old'Kerra Holt'has joined a band of Jedi volunteers traveling deep behind enemy lines, with no support from the Republic and little chance of survival. She thinks she is prepared for anything. She is sorely mistaken.