Empire's End

Months after the Battle of Endor, the Empire is broken but not finished. Its scattered remnant has just struck the young New Republic with a deadly ambush, and the new democracy is forced to hunt harder for an enemy it cannot locate.

Norra Wexley, a former rebel pilot, returns to service at Leia's urgent request and leads that hunt. Her target is Grand Admiral Rae Sloane, the most wanted Imperial war criminal after the attack. Norra has a personal stake: her husband was turned into a killer and used as a pawn in the assassination plot, and she wants vengeance as much as justice.

Sloane has her own fixation. She is chasing Gallius Rax, the cunning strategist who was the true mastermind of the attack, to the barren world of Jakku. Rax has gathered the strongest remnants of the Imperial war machine and prepares to carry out the late Emperor Palpatine's final plan.

This is a Star Wars novel that builds toward a single large battle. The Imperial fleet waits in orbit above Jakku while a Republic armada closes in, and Norra and her crew fly into the middle of it. Expect a story that moves from a manhunt to a full military clash, with the fate of the galaxy on the line and both ground and sky left scorched.