Announced today during the Lucasfilm Publishing Panel at New York Comic Con, arriving 28th July 2026 from best-selling author Madeleine Roux and focusing on the relationship between Leia Organa and Rey in the year between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, this is Star Wars: Legacy, and here Roux discusses finding the voice of Leia.
Roux’s love for Leia Organa in particular goes back to some of her earliest childhood memories of watching the original Star Wars films. “I’m such a Princess Leia freak. She’s a very formative character and then Carrie Fisher became kind of a personal idol for my whole life,” Roux says. “I don’t have a lot of early childhood memories, but one of the ones I do have is being six or seven and standing in front of our television wearing out the VHS of The Empire Strikes Back. I was so obsessed with Leia and Han, I would just replay the moment when he gets frozen in carbonite and they confess their love to each other. My parents were like, ‘You can watch the rest of the movie, too.’”
For Star Wars: Legacy, Roux delves into the interior lives of General Leia, Rey, and even Kylo Ren, writing in the third person close perspective. Roux says it was easiest to find Leia’s voice since she spent time reading Carrie Fisher’s books among her research for the project. “They’re almost intertwined, so it’s a huge responsibility and I take it incredibly seriously,” Roux says. “I felt a deep, serious kinship with the character and with Carrie Fisher writing this.”
And here’s the offivcial blurb for the book.
Set between Episodes VIII and IX, Rey and Leia embark on a quest to repair Rey’s lightsaber and rekindle the legacy of the Jedi.
After barely escaping the First Order on Crait, Rey and the Resistance are struggling to rebuild. Her friends need the last Jedi more than ever, but Rey feels alone and overwhelmed. Jedi tradition is built on masters and apprentices, and Rey’s teacher is gone. Leia Organa tries her best to train Rey in the ways of the Force as Luke did for her so many years ago, but Leia’s knowledge is limited, Rey’s lightsaber is broken, and the specter of Kylo Ren and regrets from the past haunt them both. How can Leia pass the torch when she herself is unsure of the way?
But then, the ancient Jedi texts offer a glimmer of hope: a long-forgotten Jedi temple on Tython that might hold the key to repairing Rey’s saber. Rey leaps at the chance to journey there — and to her surprise, so does Leia.
Rey and Leia’s nascent mentorship is put to the test when they discover the temple on Tython is filled with obscure clues to decipher and arcane trials to complete. As they work to unravel the temple’s mysteries, they encounter a group of refugees living in its shadow, hiding from a First Order officer hot on the trail of two freedom fighters in their midst. With the threat of the First Order looming and the secrets of the temple yet to be unlocked, the newly forged master and apprentice must confront their pasts, reach each other in the present, and decide what it means to carry the legacy of the Jedi into the future.
