Set immediately following the Rebel victory over the Empire, Kathy Tyers's novel tells of the desperate efforts by Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia to protect the New Republic from a potential invasion by a race of reptilian creatures bent on dominating the galaxy. Simultaneous publication with a new Star Wars hardcover, The Crystal Star.
No sooner has Darth Vader's funeral pyre burnedto ashes on Endor than the Alliance intercepts acall for help from a far-flung Imperial outpost.Bakura is on the edge of known space and the first tomeet the Ssi-ruuk, cold-blooded reptilian invaderswho, once allied with the now dead Emperor, areapproaching Imperial space with only one goal; totaldomination. Princess Leia sees the mission as anopportunity to achieve a diplomatic victory for theAlliance. But it assumes even greater importancewhen a vision of Obi-Wan Kenobi appears to LukeSkywalker with the message that he must go toBakura-or risk losing everything the Rebels have foughtso desperately to achieve."