Tessa Gratton is the New York Times bestselling author of adult and YA SFF novels and short stories that have been translated into twenty-two languages. She has been nominated twice for the Otherwise Award, and several of her novels have been Junior Library Guild selections. Her most recent novels are the dark fairy tales Strange Grace and Moon Dark Smile, the queer Shakespeare retelling Lady Hotspur, and novels in the Star Wars: The High Republic series. Though she has lived all over the world, she currently resides at the edge of the Kansas prairie with her wife. Queer, nonbinary, she/he/they.

Jedi Masters Avar Kriss and Elzar Mann, clinging to their belief in serving Light and Life, lead a daring mission into Nihil space to liberate the planet of Naboo while finally embracing their true desires and the bond that has always drawn them back together.