an alternate cover edition can be found here Computer science professor Eric Gordon has been asked to find the hacker responsible for a virus that is embezzling from university accounts. When his investigations indicate that some sort of large 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 attracted to turn down Eric's request. Together, Lori and Eric start to uncover things that their scientific minds can barely imagine. Can they find the thief and still find time to fall in love? Is everything on, and under, campus what it appears? Or could there truly be a dragon in the system?