Keyes, J. Gregory

Young Jedi Anakin Solo set out to rescue his friend Tahiri who has been captured by the Yuuzhan Vong on Yavin 4.

While Prince Attrebus continues to search for the magic sword that holds the key to destroying the invaders, Colin, a spy, discovers betrayal at the heart of the empire where Annaig is trapped and has become a slave to the dark lord of Umbriel.

Tamriel is threatened, forty years after the Oblivion Crisis, by the ancient evil of Umbriel, a floating city that casts a deadly shadow, and an unlikely group of heroes, including a legendary prince, a spy, a mage, and a young girl, attempts to save the fate of the land.

While Europe lies devastated by an asteroid and North America plagued by a new ice age, Benjamin Franklin leads a group of survivors againt the alien malakim.

The awakening of the mythical Briar King has caused an epidemic of madness throughout the land, leaving Queen Muriele of Crotheny under siege and desperate to find her runaway daughter Anne who has been named in prophecies as one who can stem the spreading darkness.

Imperial princess Hezhi is in the midst of a search for her missing friend when she learns she has magic growing within her and is fated by the Changeling--river god of the city of Nhol--to turn into a hideous monster. What Hezhi really wants is a hero, and Perkar, a young man sworn to destroy the Changeling, is just the one she needs.

Scientist Nen Yim, ordered to find weak spots in the technology of a captive Zonama Sekot ship, makes startling discoveries that have implications for the future of the Yuuzhan Vong people, while General Wedge Antilles, attempting to retake the Bilbringi system, becomes stranded in Yuuzhan Vong territory.

The first in a four book series finds the Kingdom of Crotheny under siege when a rash of mysterious murders presage the awakening of the evil Briar King.

Having escaped her father the River, Hezhi thinks she and her champion Perkar will be safe in the hinterlands, but the River searches for his daughter. Only the Blackgod saw a way for Hezhi and Perkar to defeat the River, but he is a creature they are reluctant to trust.