Artist and former actor turned Midwestern country boy, Dixon Pierce, has fallen head over heels in love with cowboy Gray McKeever at Glock Ranch in Stockton County. The two cowboys plan to get married, with an extraordinary wedding service and reception to follow. While Dixon works on art, Gray runs a hot sauce company called Roping Cowboys in downtown Tulsa. Both are occupied with their careers, but always come together in the evening hours for some heavy-duty, cowboy romp-time between the sheets. But trouble lurks in their relationship when Dixon learns that Gray’s ex-boyfriends Toby wants to steal back the hot sauce creating cowboy. Then Dixon catches Gray and Toby in a compromising position, and all hell breaks loose. Dixon pulls himself away from his art and upcoming art show to try to rein in his cowboy and future husband. But Toby is not about to lose Gray a second time. Gray is torn between the two men. He loves Dixon, but seeing Toby again reignited the flame he once held. Will he be able to choose one cowboy over the other before Dixon and Toby come to blows over him?

Stockton County Cowboys Book 3: Roping Cowboys

I was preparing a tuna salad sandwich with a slice of cantaloupe when a loud buzzing startled me. It sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place it exactly. I flung the sandwich fixings down started searching for the source.


To my surprise, I saw Gray’s cell phone next to the three-candle centerpiece on the kitchen table. Its soft blue screen had lit up and silver-white bubbles were floating up it. I grabbed it and read: 1 Text Message: Toby


Even more curious now, I pressed the READ button read Toby Chambers’s text: Need help. A little favor. Call me.


How did I feel at that moment reading Gray’s ex-boyfriend’s text? A sense of loss and disruption in my relationship with Gray overtook me. My stomach dropped and my knees started to wobble. Half of me wanted to throw the phone in the garbage after smashing it, while the other half of me—the sane and rational half of my brain—knew that there was a very good reason why Gray still communicated with Toby.


Chapter 13