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

On Sunday morning, Eric was once again woken by the telephone, but this time it was his cell phone that bleeped noisily from where it had landed on the living room floor. Eric had turned off the ringer on Lori's phone last night to prevent her from being upset by another threatening call. He must have been almost awake, he thought, or the sound of the signal, muffled by his discarded jeans wouldn't have roused him. He dropped a kiss on Lori's cheek and she didn't even stir, so he closed the bedroom door behind him and padded stark naked out into the living room to find his phone - after he unearthed his glasses.


Chapter 52