Editing Princess Leia (section)

=== Novels ===
The 1991 [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' bestselling]] novel ''[[Heir to the Empire]]'' by [[Timothy Zahn]] began what would become a large collection of works set before, between and especially after the original films.<ref name="SW Heir">{{cite web |url=https://www.starwars.com/news/heir-to-the-empire-critical-reaction |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714065516/http://www.starwars.com/news/heir-to-the-empire-critical-reaction |title=Critical Opinion: ''Heir to the Empire'' Reviews |publisher=StarWars.com |date=April 4, 2014 |archive-date=July 14, 2014 |access-date=December 14, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

==== Post-''Return of the Jedi'' ====
The bestselling [[Thrawn trilogy|''Thrawn'' trilogy]] (1991–93) by Timothy Zahn begins five years after the events of ''Return of the Jedi''.<ref name="SW Heir"/> In ''Heir to the Empire'' (1991), Leia is married to Han and three months pregnant with twins. [[Noghri]] commandos repeatedly attempt to kidnap her as part of [[Grand Admiral Thrawn]]'s plan to restore the Empire and crush the New Republic.<ref name="heir">{{cite book |title=[[Heir to the Empire]] |date=1991 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |publisher=Bantam Books |author-link=Timothy Zahn |isbn=0-553-07327-3 }}</ref> In ''[[Dark Force Rising]]'' (1992), Leia realizes that Darth Vader and the Empire deceived the Noghri to secure their allegiance, and by revealing the truth she turns the alien race to the side of the New Republic.<ref name="dark rising">{{cite book |title=[[Dark Force Rising]] |date=1992 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |publisher=Bantam Books |isbn=0-553-08574-3 }}</ref> At one point, she remembers her adoptive parents on Alderaan, implying that the "mother" she discussed with Luke on Endor was Queen Breha.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[Dark Force Rising]] |date=1992 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |isbn=978-0553560718|pages=350–51|publisher=Random House Worlds }}</ref> In ''[[The Last Command (novel)|The Last Command]]'' (1993), Leia gives birth to the twins [[Jaina Solo|Jaina]] and [[Jacen Solo]] on [[Coruscant]] during Thrawn's siege.<ref name="command">{{cite book |title=[[The Last Command (novel)|The Last Command]] |date=1993 |first=Timothy |last=Zahn |publisher=R.R. Bowker Company |isbn=0-553-09186-7 }}</ref>

Leia, now the Chief of State of the New Republic, is a minor character in the [[Jedi Academy trilogy|''Jedi Academy'' trilogy]] (1994) by [[Kevin J. Anderson]], set after the ''Thrawn'' trilogy. Next in the timeline is the ''Callista'' trilogy: ''[[Children of the Jedi]]'' (1995) by [[Barbara Hambly]], ''[[Darksaber (novel)|Darksaber]]'' (1995) by Anderson and ''[[Planet of Twilight]]'' (1997) by Hambly. In ''[[The Crystal Star]]'' (1994) by [[Vonda McIntyre]], young Jacen, Jaina and their three-year-old brother [[Anakin Solo|Anakin]] are kidnapped in a plot to restore the Empire, but are rescued by Leia and Chewbacca. Leia struggles with the responsibilities of her position in ''[[The Black Fleet Crisis]]'' trilogy (1996) by [[Michael P. Kube-McDowell]]. In ''[[The New Rebellion]]'' (1996) by [[Kristine Kathryn Rusch]], she avoids an assassination attempt and then aids in the defeat of the [[Dark Jedi]] Kueller, whom she shoots to death. [[The Corellian trilogy|The ''Corellian'' trilogy]] (1995) by [[Roger MacBride Allen]] finds Han and Leia swept up in a civil war while visiting his homeworld of [[Corellia]] with their children. In the two ''[[The Hand of Thrawn|Hand of Thrawn]]'' novels by Timothy Zahn (1997's ''[[Specter of the Past]]'' and 1998's ''[[Vision of the Future]]''), Leia tries to hold the New Republic together as Moff Disra conspires for its volatile factions to destroy each other. Leia appears periodically in the ''[[Young Jedi Knights]]'' series (1995–98) by Kevin J. Anderson and [[Rebecca Moesta]]. The 14-volume [[young adult fiction]] series covers the Jedi training of Jacen and Jaina.<ref name="THR Jacen">{{cite web |url=https://hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/how-abandoned-star-wars-expanded-850987 |title=How the Abandoned ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe Inspired ''Force Awakens'' |work=[[The Hollywood Reporter]] |first=Graeme |last=McMillan |date=December 23, 2015 |access-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-date=January 1, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101175332/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/how-abandoned-star-wars-expanded-850987 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Slate Jacen">{{cite web |last=Bouie |first=Jamelle |url=http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/16/how_the_force_awakens_remixes_the_star_wars_expanded_universe.html |title=How ''The Force Awakens'' Remixes the ''Star Wars'' Expanded Universe |date=December 16, 2015 |work=[[Slate (magazine)|Slate]] |access-date=December 20, 2015 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213145229/http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2015/12/16/how_the_force_awakens_remixes_the_star_wars_expanded_universe.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ScreenRant Jacen">{{cite web |last=Kendrick |first=Ben |url=https://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-kylo-ren-backstory-identity-explained/ |title=''Star Wars 7:'' Kylo Ren Backstory Explained |date=December 18, 2015 |website=[[Screen Rant]] |access-date=December 20, 2015 |archive-date=December 19, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151219234116/http://screenrant.com/star-wars-7-kylo-ren-backstory-identity-explained/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="DenofGeek Jacen">{{cite web |last=Saavedra |first=John |url=http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/251420/star-wars-the-force-awakens-easter-eggs-and-reference-guide/page/0/2 |title=''Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' Easter Eggs and Reference Guide (Kylo Ren/Ben Solo and the Knights of Ren) |date=December 17, 2015 |publisher=[[Den of Geek]] |access-date=December 18, 2015 |archive-date=February 13, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160213015929/http://www.denofgeek.us/movies/star-wars/251420/star-wars-the-force-awakens-easter-eggs-and-reference-guide/page/0/2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In ''[[The Truce at Bakura]]'' (1993) by [[Kathy Tyers]], set one day after the ending of ''Return of the Jedi'', Leia establishes New Alderaan, a sanctuary for the destroyed planet's surviving inhabitants. The spirit of Anakin Skywalker appears to Leia and pleads for her forgiveness, but she angrily banishes him. The six-volume [[Jedi Prince series|''Jedi Prince'' series]] (1992–93) by [[Paul Davids]] and Hollace Davids, later contradicted by other novels, is set within a year after ''Return of the Jedi''. In ''[[The Glove of Darth Vader]]'' (1992), the self-proclaimed son of the defeated Emperor [[Palpatine]], [[Trioculus]], seeks the titular glove to cement himself as the new Emperor. Entranced by Leia's beauty in ''[[The Lost City of the Jedi]]'' (1992), Trioculus vows to make her his queen. He captures her in ''[[Zorba the Hutt's Revenge]]'' (1992), but Jabba the Hutt's vengeful father, [[Zorba the Hutt|Zorba]], offers to trade his own prisoner [[Ken (Star Wars)|Ken]]—Palpatine's real grandson whom Trioculus has been seeking—for Leia, his son's killer. But Leia and Ken are rescued and Trioculus is frozen in carbonate by Zorba. ''[[Mission from Mount Yoda]]'' (1993) finds Ken's father [[Triclops (Star Wars)|Triclops]] alive and willing to join the Rebels against the Empire. Leia, now engaged to Han, is captured by Zorba in ''[[Queen of the Empire]]'' (1993). Trioculus is revived and seizes Leia before Zorba can kill her. Leia is rescued and replaced with a lookalike droid decoy, which kills Trioculus. In ''[[Prophets of the Dark Side]]'' (1993), Leia looks forward to her wedding to Han and has a vision of their two children. [[Matthew Stover]]'s 2008 standalone novel ''[[Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor]]'' picks up the story soon after, as Luke, Leia and the Rebels fight the [[Sith]] Lord Shadowspawn.

In ''[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]]'' (1994) by [[Dave Wolverton]], set immediately before the ''Thrawn'' trilogy, Leia is presented with an advantageous political marriage to [[Prince Isolder]] of the planet Hapes. A jealous Han abducts Leia and takes her to the planet Dathomir; Luke and Isolder follow, and there they all find the hidden forces of the Imperial warlord Zsinj.<ref>{{cite web |title=''Star Wars: The Courtship of Princess Leia'' (Review) |url=https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dave-wolverton/star-wars-the-courtship-of-princess-leia/ |work=[[Kirkus Reviews]] |date=May 20, 2010 |access-date=December 7, 2015 |archive-date=December 8, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208175352/https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/dave-wolverton/star-wars-the-courtship-of-princess-leia/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Defeating him, Han and Leia marry.<ref>{{cite book |title=[[The Courtship of Princess Leia]] |first=Dave |last=Wolverton |author-link=Dave Wolverton |date=1994 |publisher=[[Bantam Spectra]] |isbn=0-553-08928-5}}</ref> The 2003 novels ''[[A Forest Apart]]'' and ''[[Tatooine Ghost]]'' by [[Troy Denning]] are set immediately after ''The Courtship of Princess Leia''. The newly married Leia fears that any children she has may succumb to the dark side like her father. During an adventure on [[Tatooine]] in ''Tatooine Ghost'', she discovers the diary of her grandmother [[Shmi Skywalker]] and meets some of young Anakin's childhood friends. When she learns of Anakin's childhood as a slave and the traumatic death of his mother, Leia learns to forgive her father.

==== Works set between films ====
In ''[[Shadows of the Empire (novel)|Shadows of the Empire]]'' (1996) by [[Steve Perry (author)|Steve Perry]], the only ''Star Wars'' novel set between ''The Empire Strikes Back'' and ''Return of the Jedi'', Leia is searching for Boba Fett to find a captive Han. She is bewitched by the crime lord [[Prince Xizor]] using pheromones, but Chewbacca helps her elude the seduction.<ref name="Shadows">{{cite book |last=Perry |first=Steve |author-link=Steve Perry (author) |title=[[Shadows of the Empire (novel)|Shadows of the Empire]] |publisher=Bantam Spectra |date=April 1, 1996 |isbn=978-0-553-10089-1}}</ref>

''[[Allegiance (novel)|Allegiance]]'' (2007) and ''Choices of One'' (2011) by Timothy Zahn are set between ''Star Wars: A New Hope'' and ''The Empire Strikes Back'', and feature Leia and her cohorts seeking new allies for their Rebellion against the Empire. ''[[Empire and Rebellion: Razor's Edge|Razor's Edge]]'' (2013) by [[Martha Wells]] and ''[[Empire and Rebellion: Honor Among Thieves|Honor Among Thieves]]'' (2014) by [[James S. A. Corey]] take place in the same time period and also chronicle the adventures of Leia and Han.

==== ''New Jedi Order'' ====
In the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'' series (1999–2003), Leia resigns as Chief of State, and on the heels of her warnings before the Senate, the alien [[Yuuzhan Vong]] invade the galaxy. They destroy system after system and defeat both the Jedi and the New Republic forces in countless battles. Chewbacca dies in ''[[Vector Prime]]'' (1999) by [[R.A. Salvatore]], which sends Han into a deep depression that causes a rift between him and Leia. They reunite after Leia is gravely wounded at the Battle of Duro in Kathy Tyers' ''[[Balance Point]]'' (2000). She is targeted by a deadly Voxyn slayer in Troy Dennings' ''[[Star By Star]]'' (2001), and though she manages to evade death, her son Anakin is later killed during a mission to prevent more Voxyn from being cloned. The Vong are finally defeated in ''[[The Unifying Force]]'' (2003) by [[James Luceno]].

In Denning's [[The Dark Nest trilogy|The ''Dark Nest'' trilogy]] (2005), Leia, Han, and several Jedi become involved in an escalating border dispute between the [[Chiss]] and the insidious insectoid Killiks, and Leia makes a bitter enemy in the [[Twi'lek]] warrior [[Alema Rar]]. In ''[[The Joiner King]]'' (2005), Leia asks [[Saba Sebatyne]] to train her as a Jedi Knight. R2-D2 malfunctions in ''[[The Unseen Queen]]'' (2005) and shows Luke a holoclip of his father Anakin and a pregnant woman, whom Luke learns is his and Leia's biological mother, Padmé Amidala. Anakin and Padmé are discussing a dream of Anakin's in which Padmé dies in childbirth; later, Luke and Leia watch a clip in which Padmé is talking to Obi-Wan Kenobi about Anakin. [[Tenel Ka]], Queen Mother of the Hapes Consortium, has a daughter, [[Allana Solo|Allana]], secretly fathered by Jacen. In ''[[The Swarm War]]'' (2005), Luke and Leia view holoclips of their mother's death, and Leia is promoted to Jedi Knight.

==== ''Legacy of the Force'' ====
The bestselling ''[[Legacy of the Force]]'' series (2006–08) chronicles the crossover of Han and Leia's son Jacen to the dark side of the Force while the Jedi, Solos, and Skywalkers fight against his growing power.<ref name="THR Jacen"/><ref name="Slate Jacen"/><ref name="ScreenRant Jacen"/><ref name="DenofGeek Jacen"/> In ''[[Betrayal (Star Wars novel)|Betrayal]]'' (2006) by [[Aaron Allston]], Jacen turns to the dark side, believing that it is the only way to save the galaxy from the chaos brewing among the member systems of the Galactic Alliance. Jacen realizes in ''[[Bloodlines (Star Wars novel)|Bloodlines]]'' (2006) by [[Karen Traviss]] that the Sith discipline will require him to kill one of his loved ones, which he decides is an acceptable sacrifice to save the galaxy. In Troy Denning's ''[[Tempest (Denning novel)|Tempest]]'' (2006), Han and Leia thwart the assassination of Tenel Ka and Allana but become caught up in a Corellian conspiracy. They are almost killed when the ''Millennium Falcon'' is attacked by a [[Star Destroyer]] controlled by an increasingly powerful Jacen—who knows that his parents are on board. With Han injured, Leia and Lando further investigate the Corellians in Aaron Allston's ''[[Exile (Star Wars novel)|Exile]]'' (2007), but Alema reappears to exact her vengeance on Leia. ''[[Sacrifice (Star Wars novel)|Sacrifice]]'' (2007) by Karen Traviss finds Leia and Han on the run, hunted by Jacen as traitors to the Galactic Alliance. He kills Luke's wife [[Mara Jade]] as his final sacrifice to become Darth Caedus, the new ruler of the Sith. In ''[[Inferno (Star Wars novel)|Inferno]]'' (2007) by Troy Denning, Han and Leia are faced with the reality that their son, now Joint Chief of State, is the enemy. Leia attempts unsuccessfully to manipulate Jacen in Aaron Allston's ''[[Fury (Star Wars novel)|Fury]]'' (2007) so that the Jedi can both thwart him and neutralize Alema. Finally, in ''[[Invincible (Star Wars novel)|Invincible]]'' (2008) by Troy Denning, Jaina kills Jacen in a lightsaber duel. At Tenel Ka's request, Leia and Han adopt Allana, disguised with the name "Amelia" to protect her from any future vengeance against Cadeus or the Hapes Consortium. Multiple novels in the series made [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''The New York Times'' Best Seller list]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6DA1531F93BA25755C0A9609C8B63 |title=Best Sellers: June 18, 2006 (''Betrayal'') |date=June 18, 2006 |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=April 1, 2015 |archive-date=December 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222170436/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE6DA1531F93BA25755C0A9609C8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E4D61231F93BA25750C0A9619C8B63 |title=Paperback Best Sellers: March 18, 2007 (''Exile'') |date=March 18, 2007 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 1, 2015 |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403003529/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A04E4D61231F93BA25750C0A9619C8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E3DA1231F935A2575AC0A9619C8B63 |title=Paperback Best Sellers: September 16, 2007 (''Inferno'') |date=September 16, 2007 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 16, 2015 |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403014627/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E3DA1231F935A2575AC0A9619C8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505EFD71F3AF935A25751C1A9619C8B63 |title=Paperback Best Sellers: Fiction: Mass-Market: December 16, 2007 (''Fury'') |date=December 16, 2007 |work=The New York Times |access-date=April 1, 2015 |archive-date=April 3, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403021615/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9505EFD71F3AF935A25751C1A9619C8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE2DE1639F932A35755C0A96E9C8B63 |title=Best Sellers: Fiction: Sunday, June 1, 2008 (''Invincible'') |date=June 1, 2008 |work=The New York Times |access-date=March 16, 2015 |archive-date=June 26, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626150635/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0CE2DE1639F932A35755C0A96E9C8B63 |url-status=live }}</ref>

The nine-volume ''[[Fate of the Jedi]]'' series (2009–12) by Aaron Allston, Troy Denning, and [[Christie Golden]] finds Han and Leia become caught up in the intensifying conflict between the Galactic Alliance and the Jedi. In the wake of Darth Cadeus' death, the now-peaceful Galactic Alliance harbors a growing mistrust toward the Jedi, and the situation is worsened by a Force-induced psychosis that begins afflicting individual Jedi, sending them on violent rampages.

In ''[[Millennium Falcon (novel)|Millennium Falcon]]'' (2008) by James Luceno, set between ''Legacy of the Force'' and ''Fate of the Jedi'', a mysterious device hidden inside the eponymous spacecraft sends Han, Leia and Allana on an adventure to investigate the ship's past before it came into Han's possession. Troy Denning's ''[[Crucible (Star Wars novel)|Crucible]]'' (2013), set after ''Fate of the Jedi'' and the last novel to date in the ''Star Wars Legends'' chronology, reunites Leia, Han and Luke with Lando as they aid him to thwart a vast criminal enterprise threatening his asteroid mineral refinery in the Chilean Rift [[nebula]].