THE LAST PRAETORIAN (The Redemption Trilogy #1) By Mike Smith
Published November 1, 2012. Kindle e-book. Estimated length: 405 pages. Reminiscent of the TV show Firefly , this show has humanity moving out into the galaxy and occupying multiple planets. Also, like in Firefly , the newly settled planets fought a civil war. But, instead of an oligarchy, this universe's civil war resulted in an emperor, much like the chaos at the end of the Roman Republic led to Julius and Augustus Caesar. Now, hundreds of years later, the current emperor is assassinated in a plot led by one of the admirals of one of his fleets of star ships. The fleet proceeds to move against the emperor's only heir, his daughter, as she travels to the planet where her school is. But, she is protected by the praetorian guards and their leader Jonathan Radec. At the cost of all of the praetorian guards (except for Radec) the princess survives. The Last Praetorian is the story of the Radec and the the princess and their romance and why they broke up and how they