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

By the afternoon, Lori was so busy that she managed to forget about the morning completely. She was swamped by preparations for the departmental picnic, students turning in final projects and a stack of exams waiting to be graded. When Wes popped into her office at four thirty, she was on the phone with the picnic caterer.


"There!" she sighed triumphantly, several minutes later. "The picnic is ready. As long as I make an appropriate sacrifice to the weather gods, everything should be fine."


"All finished?" Wes asked. "I'm impressed."


Chapter 54