Star Wars: Fate of the Jedi: Omen

I’d fallen in love with Luke Skywalker and the whole galaxy far, far away in the summer of ’77 at age 13. My parents dropped me off for the first showings on Saturday and picked me up in time for dinner practically every weekend it was in the theaters. It fundamentally changed me and I will always be grateful. But it was rumored that if you worked for Star Trek, you’d never work for Star Wars. So you can imagine my reaction when, out of the blue, my agent asked, “Would you like to write Star Wars?”

 Not one book, but; not alone, but with two other writers, and only writing the 2^nd, 3^rd, and 4^th books of a world that had 30+ years of telling its own stories. Thanks to Troy Denning and the late Aaron Allston, somehow we did it.

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This is it. The moment when that 13-year-old girl in the movie theater got to see a dream realized. The biggest challenge of my writing career thus far. I hope one day my idea of the Lost Tribe of the Sith, and maybe even Vestara Khai, might make it into the canon universe. That’s more likely than me ever getting to write it in the first place, and a girl can dream! --Christie

The Jedi Order is in crisis.

The late Jacen Solo's shocking transformation into murderous Sith Lord Darth Caedus has cast a damning pall over those who wield the Force for good: Two Jedi Knights have succumbed to an inexplicable and dangerous psychosis, criminal charges have driven Luke Skywalker into self-imposed exile, and power-hungry Chief of State Natasi Daala is exploiting anti-Jedi sentiment to undermine the Order's influence within the Galactic Alliance. Forbidden to intervene in Jedi affairs, Luke is on a desperate mission to uncover the truth behind Jacen's fall to the dark side — and to learn what's turning peaceful Jedi into raving lunatics. But finding answers will mean venturing into the mind-bending space of the Kathol Rift and bargaining with an alien species as likely to destroy outsiders as deal with them. Still, there is no other choice and no time to lose, as the catastrophic events on Coruscant continue to escalate.

Stricken by the same violent dementia that infected her brother, Valin, Jedi Knight Jysella Horn faces an equally grim fate after her capture by Natasi Daala's police. And when Han and Leia Solo narrowly foil another deranged Jedi bent on deadly destruction, even acting Jedi Grand Master Kenth Hamner appears willing to bow to Daala's iron will — at the expense of the Jedi Order.

But an even greater threat is looming. Millennia in the past, a Sith starship crashed on an unknown low-tech planet, leaving the survivors stranded. Over the generations, their numbers have grown, the ways of the dark side have been nurtured, and the time is fast approaching when this lost tribe of Sith will once more take to the stars to reclaim their legendary destiny as rulers of the galaxy. Only one thing stands in their way — a name whispered to them through the Force: Skywalker.