Colorado Flame — Colleen Quinn

LADY REPORTER
As a reporter for the Philadelphia Public Ledger, Jessica Hayes had been capable, confident, and in complete command of her craft and her life. That was before her editor was killed for the newspaper's investigation of the Pennsylvania Railroad scandal. Now Jessica was on the run--escorted home to Colorado for her own safety by hired gun Holden Keane. And though she despised Holden for being a killer and a mercenary, when the bullets started flying she found she was willing enough to take refuge in his strong embrace--and weak enough to melt under the heat of his kiss, and surrender to his intoxicating desires...

HIRED GUN
Holden cursed the Pinkerton agency for assigning him to play nursemaid to a headstrong old-maid suffragette who didn't know what was good for her. At least she could have been plain and frumpy, instead of pretty enough to tempt a saint--which Holden certainly was not. Living with her day in and day out--and that included sleeping by her side, gun at the ready--was pure torture. A man could only take so much before he gazed into those Colorado blue eyes and found himself kissing those tempting lips. And then there was no turning back from the ecstasy of passion's Colorado Flame