The Dragonstar Chronicles

A determined but talentless young poet accidentally adopts an infant, hyperspace-travelling dragon; enchanted by their mysterious psychic bond, she struggles to protect him from the ruthless interstellar monopoly that owns him and intends to exercise its legal right to enslave them both, forever. Their only hope is The Vigilant, an elusive and ancient race of celestial dragons who are the preservers of stellar ecology. . .