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

Lori rubbed her eyes and fought back a yawn. She crossed her arms on the round table in front of her and leaned her chin on her hands.


"Good grief, girlfriend, if you're going to be awake all night anyway, you should at least be having some fun. Why don't you put yourself out of your misery and just sleep with the man?" Wesley Iversen breezed into Lori's office in a cloud of lavender gauze.


"Wes, go be perky somewhere else." Lori glowered at her friend. "If you didn't have that DNA analysis with you, I'd just have to kick your butt out that third-story window over there." Since the window in Lori's office was only about six inches wide, they both understood the futility of the threat and grinned weakly at each other in understanding. Unfortunately, to Lori's way of thinking, Wes refused to be diverted.


Chapter 28