Product Description The Jedi move one step closer to saving the embattled galaxy— only to confront a formidable wall of resistance. The harrowing search for Zonama Sekot is finally over for Luke Skywalker, Jacen Solo, and the others aboard the Jade Shadow. But joy turns to alarm when the living planet sends a defiant message: it refuses to follow them back to a galaxy full of war, exploitation, and misery.While Luke works feverishly to persuade the elusive planet to reconsider, the Yuuzhan Vong launches a full-scale attack aimed at the heart of the new alliance. Sent to defend a major communications base, Han and Leia find themselves hopelessly outnumbered. Reinforcements are just too far away to help before everything is destroyed. So the courageous pair must now fight an unrelenting battle against staggering odds. Whether they actually survive is another matter. . . . About the Author Sean Williams and Shane Dix are the bestselling and award-winning coauthors of the Evergence series. Their last novels were Echoes of Earth and its sequel Orphans of Earth. Individually, both have numerous short story credits, and Williams is a successful author in his own right. His novels include Metal Fatigue and The Resurrected Man. His fantasy series, The Books of the Change, concluded in December 2002.Williams and Dix both live in Adelaide, South Australia, a city Salman Rushdie once described as the ideal setting for a horror story. Dix lives with his wife, Nydia, and has two children from a previous relationship. Williams lives with writer Kirsty Brooks and DJs in his spare time.For more information, please visit www.seanwilliams.com.au. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Leia literally took a backseat during the flight to Esfandia. Trying to compete with her husband and Droma was too exhausting, and, ultimately, pointless. At times it seemed their affinity wasn’t entirely amicable, but it was perfectly natural. They’d hardly stopped talking since the Ryn had come aboard. Bringing each other up to date on events since they’d parted at Fondor, they covered everything from sneaky tactics to Anakin’s death. After the latter, Droma had left the bridge for a while, to sing a plaintive lay in a language Leia didn’t understand, but then he’d returned with a story about one of his exploits in the Senex sector. The tale was as tall as a Bolenian hillspinner,but it served its purpose by easing the pall of melancholy that had engulfed the Falcon.“So they started taking apart the tanker module,” Hanwas saying now, relating one of his own stories to Droma,his mood far removed from the grief that had consumedhim earlier.“Which you said was filled with liquid hydrogen.”“Yeah, but destroying the tanker didn’t stop the hydrogen.If anything, it spread out a little, exactly asplanned.”“Why?” Droma asked, frowning. “Hydrogen won’tburn without oxygen.”“That’s what Goldenrod said. That’s the trouble withdroids: no imagination. As our shields failed, I told Leiaand Jacen to punch holes through the cruiser’s hull withour quads. Before I could tell those scarheads to eat ions,there was more than enough oxygen for the hydrogen toreact with. The cruiser went up so fast we had a toughtime dodging the pieces. After that, it was just a matter ofgetting out of there. The few skips we left behind weren’tputting up much of a fight.”“Understandably. I hear Vong skips are useless oncethey’re cut off from their yammosks.”“Well, they’re not completely useless,” Han said, “butit does give you an advantage.”Droma shrugged. “Speaking of yammosks, I’ve heardsome stories about them that would make your tail standon end!”Leia listened to the banter but offered nothing towardthe conversation. Instead, she concentrated on the informationDroma had provided them: communications hadindeed been lost with the Unknown Regions. The destructionof the base on Generis and the attack on Esfandia appearedto be the source of the disruption. A free