Alone on the battlefield. Surrounded by death. Cornered by enemies. And ready to die. Drizzt Do₂Urden has become the Hunter, the bane of the orc hordes still ravaging the North. Cut off, alone, convinced that everything he ever valued has been destroyed, all that₂s left is to kill, and kill, and kill, until there are no enemies left. But there are a lot of enemies, and even the Hunter is just one lone drow.

After abandoning the perils of his homeland, the Underdark, Drizzt Do-Urden, the renegade dark elf, battles to survive in the harsh surface world and seeking a new beginning to gain acceptance from the surface-dwellers

After the defeat of the Empire, Princess Leia is now a noted diplomat and her brother Luke hopes to reestablish a Jedi Council. The three teenage Solo children are Jedi-in-training. Meanwhile, in an outer sector of the star system, a dark threat is gathering. The Yuuzhan Vong, an extragalactic warrior race that despises technology, have trained living organisms to serve them in highly sophisticated ways.