Temeraire

Seacaptain wins a dragon egg as loot from a fight, and the dragon hatches... and chooses him.
That starts all kinds of problems. For example, the captain's father wasn't very pleased of him going to sea, and going to air force is totally unacceptable for him. And what about the woman he had an understanding with? Being a “dragon daddy” is not easy. But it pays back. Temeraire - as the sea captain names his new companion - is delightful, intelligent, compassionate... they soon grow inseparable. Now... as the book ends, we have discovered some very complicating details about Temeraire... and the stage for further adventures of the sea captain and his dragon - or the dragon and his sea captain - is set.