New Dawn

Kanan Jarrus has spent his life since the Jedi were hunted down and driven from Coruscant trying simply to survive. He drifts alone across the galaxy, taking one anonymous job after another and keeping clear of trouble, above all the Empire. When he finds himself on a world where ruthless Imperial forces and desperate revolutionaries are heading toward a deadly clash, he plans to stay out of it.

Then a friend is brutally killed by the Empire, and the former Jedi has to decide whether to give in to fear or fight back. He does not stand alone. A bomb-throwing radical, a former Imperial surveillance agent, a vengeful security officer and the mysterious Hera Syndulla, an agent provocateur with her own agenda, join him in challenging the Empire.

Together they face a crisis of apocalyptic scale on the planet Gorse, standing against one of the Emperor's most feared enforcers to save a world and its people.

This is a Star Wars novel by John Jackson Miller set in the early years of the Empire. It introduces Kanan and Hera, two central characters of the animated series Star Wars Rebels, and takes place before that series begins.