Saabrina (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780998976440)

Saab: Small, sentient, shapeshifting spacecraft. The scariest and most versatile weapon in the United Star Systems' arsenal. Synthetic smartass.

Sentinel: Whichever organic stick-in-the-mud the Saab must tote around as her order-giving partner.

After the (frustratingly avoidable) loss of her sentinel, Saab Saabrina is invited by an old friend and mentor to spend some time on some primitive, pre-warp world: Earth.

It's not a comforting social visit; instead, it's a setup. Saabra wants Saabrina to meet Bob-a middle-aged single dad on the edge of empty nestdom. He's about as far from a standard-issue sentinel as Saabrina can imagine, but maybe she could use something different.

Maybe he could, too.

And maybe each could give the other a chance to be something more.

They just have to figure out how before their enemies kill billions.