The Apprentice's Talent (Talents Universe, #1)

Mei Zhen Kelly is a twenty-three year old computer programmer from Belfast working in Dublin for nearly three years. She's talented and very dedicated to her work. People think she'll go far, now that she's had her second major promotion. Only her Chinese mother called her Mei Zhen, her official name. Her parents died while she was at university and now everyone calls her Maisie. Wrapped up in her personal issues, she doesn't pay a huge amount of attention to the news of the alien starship ...