Tigra

Tigra (teg-ra): Common name for a feline-like animal native to the planet Ararat. Zoological classification, Tigerius Rabidus Araratus.
Jeena Garza, an elite soldier in an ages-old galactic war, crash lands on the remote desert planet, Ararat. It is a desolate world, long lost to the rest of humanity and home to only a few scattered, primitive cultures. For Jeena the isolation is a blessing. After years as a soldier and months in a prison camp, she wants only to be left alone; to forget and to be forgotten. But fate has other plans.
After killing a Tigra female in self-defense, she reluctantly adopts the orphaned cub. Tigras are known to be ferocious killing machines, unable to be domesticated, yet this flies in the face of the gentle creature she has named Samson, who seems not only docile, but intelligent. Jeena's adoption of Samson will set off a series of events that will shake the very foundations of life on Ararat. To save him, she will lead a people into battle 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.