Jessan Hoan Reavers had been hired to attack Hoan International bank by Roche, the crime lord of Madripoor. She moved to the island of Madripoor, where she became embroiled with the criminal element and adopted the alias "Tyger Tiger", after the William Blake poem "The Tyger". Wolverine later joined Jessan's efforts against Roche. Jessan decapitated Roche after he shot Wolverine. As Tyger Tiger, Jessan became the new crime lord of Madripoor, but she refuses to deal in either drugs or slavery. She briefly wore a highly resistant suit of armor, a duplicate of the armor used by the X-Man Psylocke. Tyger is
In the Forests of the Night her Light Line magic out of anger, she set Mayhem a-blaze, as fire is the specialty of those in the Light Line. Lila Light, although unknown to Risika that Charcoal is her mother, currently resides in New Mayhem. Awater-Rhodes released the sequel to "In the Forests of the Night" in 2000 entitled, "Demon in My View", which takes place three years after the events of "In the Forests of the Night". "In the Forests of the Night" is also mentioned in "Demon in My View" under the fictional title, "Tiger, Tiger". Risika does not make an appearance in the novel