SPECIAL BONUS INSIDEthe exclusive story A Forest Apart previously available in book format only Han and Leia struggle to keep the Empire at bay as stunning revelations from the past threaten to eclipse the future of the New Republic. . . . The deaths of Darth Vader and Emperor Palpatine by no means spelled the end of the Empire. In the aftermath the New Republic has faced a constant struggle to survive. Now a new threat looms a masterpiece of Alderaanian artlost after the planets destructionhas resurfaced on the black market. It conceals a vital secretthe code used to communicate with New Republic agents undercover within the Empire. Discovery by Imperial forces would spell disaster. The only option is recoveryand Han Leia Chewbacca and C3PO have been dispatched to Tatooine to infiltrate the auction. When a dispute at the auction erupts into violence the painting vanishes in the chaos. Han and Leia are thrust into a desperate race to reclaim it. As they battle against marauding TIE fighters encroaching stormtroopers and Tatooines savage Tusken Raiders Leias emotional struggle over the specter of her infamous father culminates in the discovery of an extraordinary link to the past. And as longburied secrets at last emerge she faces a moment of reckoning that will forever alter her destiny . . . and that of the New Republic. show more