Luke Training Leia as a Jedi Is Finally Getting a New Star Wars Novel

One of the most interesting chapters in Leia Organa’s life has, until now, lasted roughly as long as it takes a stormtrooper to miss a doorway.

In The Rise of Skywalker, we briefly saw Luke training Leia as a Jedi on Ajan Kloss. She had a lightsaber, she clearly knew how to use it, and then the flashback ended before anyone could ask the obvious question: what was that entire period actually like?

A new Star Wars novel is finally going to answer it.

Star Wars: Twin Crossroads, written by Beth Revis, will follow Luke Skywalker and Leia Organa after Return of the Jedi. The novel is scheduled for April 2027 and will explore Luke training his first student, who also happens to be his twin sister.

Luke Is Still Learning Too

The story takes place while the New Republic is hunting down the remains of the Empire.

During a rare break from the fighting, Luke begins training Leia on Ajan Kloss. But Luke is not exactly a seasoned Jedi Master at this point.

He defeated Darth Vader and survived the Emperor, certainly. But his own education involved a short stay on Dagobah, several cryptic lectures from Yoda and leaving before the course was technically finished.

Now he must rebuild Jedi knowledge while teaching Leia at the same time.

Luke will search for Jedi artifacts, including the star compass seen in Star Wars Battlefront II. It is a nice connection between the books and the games, and another reminder that Star Wars lore now lives in so many places that keeping track of it practically requires office software.

Leia Must Choose Her Own Path

Leia’s Jedi training is more complicated than simply learning how to swing a lightsaber.

She is helping build a new government, pursuing Imperial forces and confronting the fact that Darth Vader was her father. Becoming a Jedi would require her to decide how much of her life she is willing to give to the Force.

The novel will show Leia constructing her lightsaber and reveal where she found its kyber crystal.

More importantly, it can finally explore why Leia ultimately chose not to continue down the Jedi path.

We already know where her story ends. What has been missing is the emotional journey that brought her there.

The Twins Return to Coruscant

Luke and Leia will also travel undercover to Coruscant, which remains under Imperial control.

Their mission takes them to the former Jedi Temple, turned by Palpatine into the Imperial Palace. There, they will uncover more about the Jedi and about their parents, Anakin Skywalker and Padmé Amidala.

That alone gives the novel plenty to work with.

Luke and Leia are returning to a place shaped by their father, their mother, the Jedi Order and the Emperor. It is less a family history lesson and more an archaeological dig through several generations of trauma.

Luke and Leia Finally Get to Be Siblings

Perhaps the most promising part of Twin Crossroads is that Luke and Leia will be allowed to act like actual siblings.

Beth Revis has teased private jokes, arguments and even a disagreement over who should wash the dishes. Leia, quite sensibly, appears unwilling to volunteer.

The original trilogy revealed that Luke and Leia were twins, but barely had time to explore what that meant.

This novel finally can.

Not just Leia with a lightsaber. Not just Luke as a teacher.

Two people trying to understand their family, their powers and each other after discovering that their father was the most feared man in the galaxy.

Twin Crossroads could finally give one of the Skywalker Saga’s most important relationships the space it always deserved.