Star Wars

Torrent Company's Captain Rex agrees to relieve Anakin Skywalker of his ubiquitous-and insatiably curious-Padawan Ahsoka for a while by bringing her along on a routine three-day shakedown cruise aboard Captain Gilad Pellaeon's newly refitted assault ship. But the training run becomes an active-and dangerous-rescue mission when Republic undercover agent Hallena Devis goes missing in the middle of a Separatist invasion.
Dispatched to a distant world to aid a local dictator facing a revolution Hallena finds herself surrounded by angry freedom fighters and questioning the Republic's methods-and motives. Summoned to rescue the missing operative who is also his secret love Pellaeon-sworn to protect the Republic over all-is torn between duty and desire. And Ahsoka sent in with Rex and six untested clone troopers to extract Hallena encounters a very different Jedi philosophy which shakes the foundation of her upbringing to the core. As danger and intrigue intensify the loyalties and convictions of all involved will be tested. . . .

Karen Traviss is a novelist, screenwriter and comics writer, having received critical acclaim for her first two novels City of Pearl and Crossing the Line. She is also the author of Star Wars: Republic Commando: Hard Contact and Star Wars: Republic Commando: Triple Zero, and is the beloved of stormtroopers everywhere. Karen is a former defense correspondent and TV newspaper journalist, Karen has also worked as a police press officer, an advertising copywriter and a journalism lecturer.