Even in the shining light of the High Republic, unforeseen evil lurks in the shadows that not even the Jedi have faced...yet. A routine Jedi mission to the planet Dalna suddenly comes under deadly assault by an unseen foe. Cut off from help, they find themselves cornered in an ancient structure. Will they be able to make their stand here, or have they been lured into a trap? An known evil stalks these ruins... ruthless predator...