Stormdancer

Griffins are supposed to be extinct. So when Yukiko and her warrior father are sent to capture one for the Sh?gun, they fear that their lives are over. Soon Yukiko finds herself stranded: a young woman alone in the wilderness, with only a furious, crippled griffin for company. As Yukiko learns the horrifying extent of the Sh?gun's crimes against her country and her family, she becomes determined to make him pay.