Author:
Cindy Spencer Pape firmly believes in happily-ever-after and brings that to her writing. A multiple award-winning author, she has published almost sixty novels and stories. When not hard at work writing, she can be found restoring her 1870 house, dressing up for steampunk parties and Renaissance fairs, or with her nose buried in a book. Visit her website: www.cindyspencerpape.com.

Computer science professor Eric Gordon has to find the hacker responsible for a virus on campus. When his investigations show some sort of reptile may be living in the steam tunnels under campus, he turns to biology professor Lori Tremain for help. 

Lori’s life is crazy with her tenure review looming, but she’s too curious and way too attracted to turn down Eric’s request.  Together, Lori and Eric uncover things that their scientific minds can barely imagine, along with a passion they never expected.  She doesn’t have time for love or dragons, but adventure and romance find her anyway.

Dragon in the System

As soon as Wesley left, Lori grabbed a small mirror out of her desk to check her hair and make-up. A brush from the same drawer hastily smoothed her hair and Lori adjusted the tiny dragonfly clip that held back one slippery strand while rest hung down around her shoulders. She normally wore little make-up, so all she had to touch up was a quick coat of sheer lip-gloss and she was as ready to face Eric as she was going to get. Huge butterflies gamboled about in her stomach and she wished he'd hurry up and get there, so that this anxiety would be over, one way or another.


Chapter 21