Edge of Darkness — Debbie Bryce

HIRED GUNS

When Meg Andrews had hired Clay Terhune to free her brother from a South American political prison he'd been nothing more to her than a mercenary who risked his life for a living in the dark, dirty corners of the world. But somewhere along the back roads of a dangerous country, the gruff loner had somehow freed Meg from a shameful secret ....

Clay Terhune had learned the hard way to trust only himself and his gun, and feeling protective toward the shy, pretty woman beside him wasn't in a mercenary's job description. But when he discovered that Meg was far more afraid of her own shadow than of him, he found himself harder at work than ever, in far more dangerous territory ....