[Quiet Man Cometh]

Reminds me of a similar story I read but it dealt with sort of pseudo magical horses instead. The story was that only men could ride them (medieval basis here) but the horses figure that't just male human drivel. They are telepathic but find it difficult to talk to humans because of our complicated brains. The bad guy in the story attempts to gain one these horses for a mount but after crippling him, it casts itself off a cliff rather than let the man ride him. It wasn't bad for a book I got at a garage sale. I can't remember the title, something like "Dark Horse" (typical, I know) but the horses in question were called Hunnulis and were all black with a lighting bolt mark on their shoulder. Can't remember the author either. I'm not proving very helpfull here it seems.

The heroine is a girl that disguises herself as a boy (also typical in a sense) so that she may claim revenge for her dead clan herself rather than depending on a male relative to take up her cause and do it for her.