A Dragon From the Desert (The Dragonbond Saga #1)

"The King of High Adventure," Starlog.
"Immediately convincing, classically brooding," Steve Tompkins, The Cimmerian.

The biggest problem in fifteen year old Raif's life used to be finding lost goats. Now, apprenticed to a terrifying war wizard he is caught in the web of intrigue and assassination surrounding the heir to his home kingdom. And if that was not enough he becomes foster parent to an orphaned dragon. He must do his best to make sure he and his new friend survive the dangers of the deadly world in which they find themselves.