The Dragonstar Chronicles 3 Gardenners Legend

Mister. Tremendous, emperor of the galaxy in everything but official title, wants his dragon back. His company, Interstellar Transport ("the largest Enterprise of Commerce in ITTC Known Space"), controls a galactic trade monopoly with a mysterious race of cosmic dragons that are able to eliminate the distances of space-time by a technique called VoidBore. He is determined to preserve that crucial monopoly. Unfortunately for Tremendous, his young hatchling has already imprint-bonded with an alien usurper, and the infant dragon does indeed regard Sofi as his mother. To make Chomm's home-world, Gardenia, and are welcomed warmly. But Sofi is suspicious of their motives: she has already learned everybody wants a dragon.