But why? What is so important about an empty patch of space? The answer will lead Vernestra to a new understanding of her abilities, and will take Syl back to the past…and to truths that will finally come out of the shadows. She and her Padawan Imri hitch a ride to the capital with Jedi Master Cohmac and his Padawan, Reath-and are asked to assist with the property dispute on the frontier. Knee-deep in familial politics is the last place Syl wants to be, but the promise of a big payoff is enough to keep her interested… Meanwhile, Jedi Knight Vernestra Rwoh has been summoned to Coruscant, but with no idea of why or by whom. She heads to the galactic capital of Coruscant for help, but gets sidetracked when she’s drawn into a squabble between two powerful families over a patch of space on the frontier. She’s been doing her best to keep the family cargo business going after her mom’s death, but between mounting debt and increasing attacks by the Nihil on unsuspecting ships, Syl is in danger of losing all she has left of her mother. The Shadow, the real one, has the last laugh after all. Once under a blue moon, some really random incident goes viral, because someone screws up the optics of what book to burn, what book to legally ban, what book to blacklist, or even just what book to criticize, and gets an unintended effect. I've never read a James Patterson book, until now I'll never read another. 'The Streisand Effect' is not a scientifically proven pattern, it is an internet meme. Sylvestri Yarrow is on a streak of bad luck with no end of sight. This book seems to have been written by someone who watched the 1994 film version of The Shadow and tried to reinvent it as fan fiction based on memories from 27 years ago. Long before the Clone Wars, the Empire, or the First Order, the Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in a golden age known as the High Republic!

The shadow books