Darth Caedus has been defeated, and his friends and family try to pick up the pieces of their lives. Jedi Knight Zekk, gone missing during the climactic battle, finds himself captured by a man unlike anyone he's ever met and enlisted in a mission that may determine the fate of the Jedi Order.

Leia Organa Solo is finally ready to leave politics and expects a trusted ally to succeed her as New Republic president, but an assassination on the frontrunner's homeworld throws the election into chaos. As Leia's government responds to spiraling violence, investigators, spies, and Jedi descend on Bavinyvar to riddle out a conspiracy that may upend the election- and the galaxy.