Blue Defender (The Chronicles of the Donner, #1)

Fifty light years from Earth, Matti-Jay Menthony encounters a dragon in space. A myth? A robot? What? She must be dreaming.
But the dragon proves all too real.
Matti-Jay's scientific mission means everything to her. She never expected it to descend into a fight for survival.
With the lives of the crew in desperate jeopardy, Matti-Jay must stretch her abilities to the very limit.
And planet Ludelle has even more mysteries hidden away.
A deep space adventure from the author of Habitat.

Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov's, his story "Crimson Birds of Small Miracles", set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov's Readers Poll Award, for best short story.
He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award.
Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music.
Award-winning author, Sean Monaghan has published more than one hundred stories in the U.S., the U.K., Australia, and in New Zealand, where he makes his home. A regular contributor to Asimov's, his story "Crimson Birds of Small Miracles", set in the art world of Shilinka Switalla, won both the Sir Julius Vogel Award, and the Asimov's Readers Poll Award, for best short story.
He is a past winner of the Jim Baen Memorial Award, and the Amazing Stories Award.
Sean writes from a nook in a corner of his 110 year old home, usually listening to eighties music.