When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent to Valahari to negotiate for the Republic during the clone wars, Anakin is framed for a dishonorable act, and they are caught up in galactic politics and war.

Following an invasion by Count Dooku's droid army, the Togruta people of the colony Kiros mysteriously disappeared. Jedi Knights Anakin and Obi-Wan, and Padawan Ahsoka follow the trail of the planet's missing population. The trail leads them to Zygerrian slavers, and the Jedi track down a faction of the villains in the black-market debris field known as the Shi'Kar Straits. The Jedi battle Captain Onyx and his crew to find information on the location...

While infiltrating the slave civilization of Zygerria to find an abducted Togruta colony, Anakin, Ahsoka, and Obi-Wan attend an "auction of a million souls," where the fates of the innocents will be decided. Before learning the location of the kidnapped people, the Jedi are exposed as agents of the Republic and enemies to the Zygerrian queen, Miraj Scintel.

Jedi Knights Anakin and Obi-Wan, along with Padawan Ahsoka and Captain Rex, locate the missing Togruta people of the Kiros colony, infiltrating the Zygerrian homeworld to attend an auction where the Togruta are being sold. At the auction, the Jedi are discovered, and Obi-Wan is sent with the rest of the slaves to the planet Kadavo, the Zygerrians' main slave-processing hub, while Anakin is forced to serve as the Zygerrian queen's bodyguard.