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Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic! Vernestra Rwoh is a new Jedi Knight at age sixteen, but her first real assignment feels an awful lot like babysitting. Shes been charged with supervising twelve-year old aspiring inventor Avon Starros on a cruiser headed to the dedication of a wondrous new space station called Starlight Beacon. But soon into their journey, bombs go off aboard the cruiser. While the adult Jedi try to save the ship, Vernestra, Avon, Avons droid J-6, a Jedi Padawan, and an ambassadors son make it to an escape shuttle, but communications are out and supplies are low. They decide to land on a nearby moon, which offers shelter but not much more. And unbeknownst to them, danger lurks in the forest.
About the Author
Justina Ireland is the New York Times bestselling author of Dread Nation and its sequel Deathless Divide (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , the middle-grade novels Star Wars, Flight of the Falcon: Lando's Luck and Spark of the Resistance, a Star Wars Story (Lucasfilm Books) , and the fantasy young adult novels Vengeance Bound and Promise of Shadows (both Simon and Schuster) . Her short science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in the anthologies A Phoenix First Must Burn (Viking BFYR) , Feral Youth (Simon and Schuster) , Black Enough (Balzer Bray/HarperCollins) , Three Sides of a Heart (HarperCollins) , and online at Vox.com. She is a former editor in chief of FIYAH Literary Magazine of Black Speculative Fiction, for which she won a World Fantasy Award. She holds a BA in History from Armstrong Atlantic State University (now Georgia Southern) and an MFA in Creative Writing from Hamline University. Her forthcoming book, Ophie's Ghosts, will be available May 2021.
