The release date for the English version of 'The Last Colony' by
John Scalzi is Apr 2007. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
John Perry, who had retired from combat, serves as the village ombudsman for a human colony on the far-off planet Huckleberry. He farms many acres, mediates local problems, and loves seeing his adoptive daughter grow up with his wife, former Special Forces veteran Jane Sagan.
That is, until a profound political purpose thrusts Perry and Sagan back into the center of interplanetary politics, treachery, and conflict by positioning them as the founders of a new human colony to be populated by settlers from all the main human planets.