Dark Journey (Star Wars

Product Description The New Jedi Order continues as Jaina Solo struggles with anger and despair after the Jedi Knights' harrowing adventure behind enemy lines.Though the Jedi strike force completed its deadly mission into Yuuzhan Vong territory, the price of success was tragedy: not everyone made it out alive. In a daring getaway, hotshop pilot Jaina Solo stole an enemy ship, taking along her fellow survivors--and leaving behind a huge piece of her heart.With the enemy in hot pursuit, Jaina is forced to seek haven in the unprotected, unfriendly Hapes Cluster, where the Jedi are held responsible for a past tragedy--and where the royal family has grim plans for their famous Jedi guest. Even more sinister are the intentions of the Yuuvhan Vong, desperate to capture Jaina for a hideous sacrifice.Grief-stricken and obsessed with revenge, Jaina is blind to these threats--and to the overpowering evil dangerously close to consuming her. In the coming conflagration, Jaina will be fighting not for victory or vengeance, but fore her very being . . .From the Paperback edition. From the Inside Flap w Jedi Order continues as Jaina Solo struggles with anger and despair after the Jedi Knights' harrowing adventure behind enemy lines. Though the Jedi strike force completed its deadly mission into Yuuzhan Vong territory, the price of success was tragedy: not everyone made it out alive. In a daring getaway, hotshop pilot Jaina Solo stole an enemy ship, taking along her fellow survivors--and leaving behind a huge piece of her heart. With the enemy in hot pursuit, Jaina is forced to seek haven in the unprotected, unfriendly Hapes Cluster, where the Jedi are held responsible for a past tragedy--and where the royal family has grim plans for their famous Jedi guest. Even more sinister are the intentions of the Yuuvhan Vong, desperate to capture Jaina for a hideous sacrifice. Grief-stricken and obsessed with revenge, Jaina is blind to these threats--and to the overpowering evil dangerously close to consuming her. In the coming conflagration, Jaina will be fightin About the Author A former music and history teacher, Elaine Cunningham has written more than a dozen fantasy novels and many short stories. She is best known for the Songs & Swords books, particularly Elfshadow, a mystery in a fantasy setting. She lives with her family in a coastal New England town. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter TwoAnakin is dead. Jacen is gone.These thoughts resounded through Jaina Solo's benumbed senses, echoing through an inner silence as profound as that of the watchful stars.These thoughts drowned out the sounds of battle, andthe frantic, running commentary of the seven young Jediwho struggled to fly the stolen Yuuzhan Vong ship. Likeher companions, Jaina was battered and filthy from daysof captivity, and from a battle that had lasted too longand cost too much.Only eight Jedi had fought their way out of the world-shipand onto this smaller ship, bringing with them thebody of their young leader. The survivors had taken theYuuzhan Vong frigate analog quickly, with astonishingease. Jaina had a dim recollection of searing anger andkilling light, of her friend Zekk pushing her away fromthe pilot's seat and into the Yuuzhan Vong equivalent ofa gunner's chair. She perched there now on the edge ofthe too-large seat, firing missiles of molten rock at thecoralskippers pursuing the Jedi and their stolen ship.Jaina watched with a strange sense of detachment asthe alien ship released plasma at her command, as thedeath of coralskippers and their Yuuzhan Vong pilotswas painted in brief, brilliant splashes against the darkcanvas of space. All of this was a fever dream, nothingmore, and Jaina was merely a character caught in herown nightmare.Jacen is gone.It didn't seem possible. It wasn't possible. Jacen wasalive. He had to be. How could she be alive if Jacenwas not? Her twin brother had been a