On Zelos II a man and a woman are held prisoner in a dark cell, each fighting in their own way for survival at the hands of Imperial captors--and a chance for escape that could cost one of them their life.  On the tortured landscape of Ryloth, Fenig Nabon awaits a ship of women warriors to complete a dangerous deal:  the smuggling of a troupe of dancers to the homeworld of the Hutts--only to get more than she bargained for.  And in a stunning new novella written especially for this collection by Hugo Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Timothy Zahn and Michael A. Stackpole, Senator Garm Bel Iblis, believed dead at the hands of an Imperial assassin, teams up with Hal Horn in a duel against the Empire's most dangerous agent.  At stake are the plans for a terrifying new weapon called the Death Star--and the fate of both the Empire and the New Republic.