This book picks up two years after the events of the first Knights of the Old Republic game (and three years before the events of the second game) as the Jedi hero Revan begins to remember more and more of his life before his memories were lost. His journey takes him beyond the edge of Republic space into a world where a powerful and tyrannical evil awaits, an evil that has touched him before. This book fills in the gap nicely between the old KOTOR games and the more recent Old Republic MMO game.