After receiving an urgent SOS from a work detail on a distant planet, a skeleton crew is dispatched to perform a standard search-and-rescue mission. But when the crew arrives, they find an abandoned site, littered with rotten food, discarded weapons... and dead bodies. As they try to piece together who--or what--could have decimated an entire operation, they realize that some things are best left buried--and some monsters are only too ready to awaken....

The year is 2072. Soon volcanic eruption will trigger catastrophic devastation, and the only way out is up. While the world's leaders, scientists, and engineers oversee the frantic production of a space fleet meant to save humankind, their children are brought in for a weekend of touring the Lazarus, a high-tech prototype spaceship. But when the apocalypse arrives months ahead of schedule, First Daughter Leigh Chen and a handful of teens from the...

No one said being a Padawan would be easy. But should it be this hard? Jedi Padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi is newly apprenticed to his master, Qui-Gon Jinn, and can't help wondering if their pairing was a mistake. Obi-Wan excels at lightsaber duels, but Qui-Gon wants to focus on meditation. While other Padawans join their masters on exciting off-plant missions, Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan stay put on Coruscant. Then Obi-Want discovers clues pointing to unfinished...