If The Rise of Skywalker only flashed Leia's lightsaber years and then cut away, Madeleine Roux's Star Wars: Legacy is the bridge that sits still on the choice. The Random House Worlds novel is out July 28, 2026. It slots between The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker, sends Rey and Leia to Tython to repair the Skywalker lightsaber's broken kyber, and spends real pages on the vision that made Leia quit Jedi training with Luke.
Soft spoiler wall for Legacy and sequel-trilogy backstory below.
What the film already told you
On Endor, Luke told Leia she would learn the Force in time. Decades later she is General Organa, not a Jedi Master, even as The Last Jedi and The Rise of Skywalker show she can still move through the Force. The Rise of Skywalker flashback puts a younger Luke training his sister on Ajan Kloss, then explains she left after sensing that Ben Solo's death waited at the end of her Jedi path. That was enough for a trailer beat. It was not enough for the why-behind-the-why.
What Legacy adds on Tython
Penguin Random House's synopsis puts the quest cleanly: Rey needs a forge and a mentor after Luke is gone; Leia tries to teach what Luke once taught her; both are haunted by Kylo Ren and unfinished choices. On Tython, the Force is loud. Leia keeps dreaming she is back on the Raddus, fighting the First Order, until the dream escalates into tearing a Star Destroyer apart with her mind while a young Ben asks if she will teach him to do the same.
That recurring nightmare reads as the fuller shape of the Ajan Kloss vision. In Legacy, Leia frames the fear to Luke as more than one boy's death. The takeaway in the text is that staying on the Jedi path risks becoming the kind of Force power that turns her family into another war machine. She tells Luke, in substance, that if she stays and becomes a Jedi, everyone she cares about will be destroyed. Luke's answer lands soft and human:
