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

After they'd all walked Wesley back to her car, Eric allowed Lori and Ben to drop him off on their way home. He'd completely ceased being jealous of the other man. Oh, it was clear that Ben cared about Lori, but after five minutes of watching Ben watch Wesley, Eric had known that Montoya was no threat to him. In fact, he felt a strong sense of kinship. Both of them wanted women who didn't want to deal with them at this point in their lives.


Rounding the corner of Eric's street, they saw a group of flashing red and blue lights. As Lori's little car pulled closer, Eric was shocked to realize that the police cars were all in front of his house. Searchlights illuminated Eric's lawn and uniformed officers were striding in and out of his opened front door.


"Wait in the car, Lori," Ben told her, climbing out alongside Eric. "We'll see what's going on."


Chapter 45