In the continuing Star Wars series, Princess Leia goes on a rescue mission to recover her children. They were kidnapped by Lord Hethrir, an Empire loyalist who takes them to a camp for enslaved boys and girls. By the author of Dreamsnake.

Han, Chewie, and Lando set out for Renat Chorios where Princess Leia is being held hostage by a ruthless warlord and where Luke has become trapped and unable to use the Force to save himself; meanwhile, the planet begins to reveal a strange, malevolent life-form that promises to destroy both the Empire and New Republic.