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A young gladiator fights for justice in a Galactic Roman Empire in Claudia Christian's and Morgan Grant Buchanan's "Wolf's Empire: Gladiator"When her mother and brother are murdered, young noblewoman Accala Viridius cries out for vengeance. But the empire is being torn apart by a galactic civil war, and her demands fall on deaf ears. Undeterred, Accala sacrifices privilege and status to train as a common gladiator. Mastering the one weapon available to her a razor-sharp discus that always returns when thrown--she enters the deadly imperial games, the only arena where she can face her enemies. But Fortune's wheel grants Accala no favors the emperor decrees that the games will be used to settle the civil war, the indigenous lifeforms of the arena-world are staging a violent revolt, and Accala finds herself drugged, cast into slavery and forced to fight on the side of the men she set out to kill. Set in a future Rome that never fell, but instead expanded to become a galaxy-spanning empire, Accala's struggle to survive and exact her revenge will take her on a dark journey that will cost her more than she ever imagined.", In a future where the Roman Empire never fell but rose to conquer the galaxy, rival houses vie for supremacy. Born into the noble House Viridian, Accala Viridius's privileged life is ripped apart when her mother is brutally murdered in the name of political power. Nineteen-year-old Accala vows to destroy those responsible: the leaders of House Sertorian, who cast a dark shadow of corruption over the Galactic Roman Empire. However, she is blocked in her quest for vengeance by her family's high position in Roman society, and her father who seeks to anchor her to a safe desk job in the imperial spy agency.Determined to succeed, Accala sacrifices both rank and privilege and enlists in the Galactic Roman Legion as a dogsbody legionary-expendable, front-line soldiers who are sent into perilous conflict zones. Worse still, in order to carry out her plans for revenge, she is forced to sign on with a Sertorian legion, owned by the very family that killed her mother., In the Galactic Roman Empire, eight noble houses fight for power. One gladiator fights for justice. This is "Wolf's Empire: Gladiator," by Claudia Christian's and Morgan Grant Buchanan.When her mother and brother are murdered, young noblewoman Accala Viridius cries out for vengeance. But the empire is being torn apart by a galactic civil war, and her demands fall on deaf ears. Undeterred, Accala sacrifices privilege and status to train as a common gladiator. Mastering the one weapon available to her a razor-sharp discus that always returns when thrown--she enters the deadly imperial games, the only arena where she can face her enemies. But Fortune's wheel grants Accala no favors the emperor decrees that the games will be used to settle the civil war, the indigenous lifeforms of the arena-world are staging a violent revolt, and Accala finds herself drugged, cast into slavery and forced to fight on the side of the men she set out to kill. Set in a future Rome that never fell, but instead expanded to become a galaxy-spanning empire, Accala's struggle to survive and exact her revenge will take her on a dark journey that will cost her more than she ever imagined.", When her mother and brother are murdered, young noblewoman Accala Viridius cries out for vengeance. But the empire is being torn apart by a galactic civil war, and her demands fall on deaf ears. Undeterred, Accala sacrifices privilege and status to train as a common gladiator. Mastering the one weapon available to her - a razor-sharp discus that always returns when thrown - she enters the deadly imperial games, the only arena where she can face her enemies. But Fortune's wheel grants Accala no favors - the emperor decrees that the games will be used to settle the civil war, the indigenous lifeforms of the arena-world are staging a violent revolt, and Accala finds herself drugged, cast into slavery and forced to fight on the side of the men she set out to kill. Set in a future Rome that never fell, but instead expanded to become a galaxy-spanning empire, Accala's struggle to survive and exact her revenge will take her on a dark journey that will cost her more than she ever imagined.

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