Nineteen-year-old Opal, a freed slave working as a dressmaker in California in 1860, meets dashing Gabriel Fortune who makes her forget her unadventurous fianc? Willie.
Seventeen-year-old Mattie leaves her sister Ivy in Last Chance, California, and disguises herself as a boy in order to get a job with the Pony Express, finding adventure, facing danger, and falling in love.
Jenna Zan Arbor will stop at nothing in her quest to discover the secrets of the Force, and use them for her own power and greed. One Jedi remains in her dangerous grasp, and a whole planet is being held hostage by her sinister plans.
There is increasing tension between Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker. Anakin still feels responsible for the death of a Jedi Council member - a guilt he does not think Obi-Wan can help him overcome.
When Obi-Wan Kenobi and Anakin Skywalker are sent to the Galactic Games, they are meant to be keepers of the peace. Then they discover an illegal event that Anakin knows all too well: Podracing.