Tigra (Tigra Book 1)

Description

Tigra (tēg-rä): Common name for a feline-like animal native to the planet Ararat. The name has apparently derived from the species’ zoological classification, tigerius rabidus araratus, or as it was usually abbreviated in scientific papers, tig. ra.

Jeena Garza, an elite soldier in an ages-old galactic civil war, escapes the horror of a POW camp only to crash-land on Ararat, a desert planet far from home. It is a desolate world, long lost to the rest of humanity and home to only a few scattered primitive cultures. For Jenna, the isolation is a blessing. After years of fighting and months as a prisoner, she wants only to be left alone; to forget and to be forgotten.

But fate has other plans. After killing its mother in self-defense, she reluctantly adopts a tigra cub, a tiger-like carnivore native to the planet. Tigras are known to be ferocious killing machines, unable to be tamed or domesticated. Yet this reputation flies in the face of the gentle creature she has named Samson, who seems not only docile, but intelligent.

Jeena’s adoption of Samson sets in motion a series of events that will shake the very foundations of life on Ararat. For his sake, she will lead a people into battle, decimate an army of half a million, and fulfill a prophesy five thousand years in the making. For Samson is no ordinary tigra. In him lies the secret to his race, a secret that will change not only Ararat, but the galaxy forever.