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After an unexpected romantic encounter with the newly appointed beautiful county magistrate, Xu Qianli, who originally faced setbacks in both career and love, begins to turn his fate around. He rises steadily, gaining success in politics. "Power, wealth, and beauty are all within my grasp!"

All five books (and one short story) of R.W. Clinger’s best-selling contemporary western Stockton County Cowboys series combined into one box set for the first time! Contains the stories:<br><br><strong>Book 1: Chasing Cowboys:</strong> After one date during a business conference, sparks fly between Cord Darringer and Bradley Hull. When Cord returns home to Stockton County, Bradley chases after him. Is it meant to be? Or will the miles that separate them keep them apart?<br><br><strong>Book 2: Riding Cowboys:</strong> Cal Hoke has a secret: he’s in love with ranch owner, Pax Raulton. Straight and sexy Pax is a handsome businessman at Riding Ranch. When he suffers a head injury caused by one of his prized horses, he spends days in recovery due to amnesia. Under Cal’s care, Pax is provided with the help he needs to heal. Cal learns Pax has a secret of his own, a secret that will change the two forever.<br><br><strong>Book 3: Roping Cowboys:</strong> Dixon Pierce has fallen head over heels in love with Gray McKeever at Glock Ranch in Stockton County. The two plan to get married, but Gray is torn. He loves Dixon, but running into his ex 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?<br><br><strong> Book 4: Branding Cowboys:</strong> Which cowboy murdered Evan Sting? This is what Joe Boxford is hired to find out. When Joe enlists the services of Tal Linear, sparks fly between the two. Romance heats up as they attempt to solve the branding crime. Then Tal vanishes, and Joe thinks his buddy is the killer's next victim. Can Joe solve the case and save his lover at the same time?<br><br><strong> Book 5: Saddling Cowboys:</strong> Sparks fly when entrepreneur Chip Cutter enters Dan Fargo’s saddle store. When Fargo is implicated in a couple of fires downtown, his abusive ex returns, determined to protect Fargo. Eventually the arsonist is caught, but Brent remains at large. Can Fargo and Chip put aside their problems, saddle up, and ride off into life’s wide blue yonder together?<br><br><strong>Taming Brooks:</strong> New ranch hand Randy Marke falls for sexy ranch owner, Dallas Brooks. Summer heat and a bath in the nearby creek draws the two cowboys together and their relationship turns intimate. Then Randy decides to tame Brooks the old-fashioned cowboy way, with relentless sex. Can love between the two last longer than a summer, though?

Which eccentric cowboy in Stockton County branded Evan Sting on Shotner Hill, murdering the young man? This is what private eye Joe Boxford asks himself when he's hired by Evan's father Benny to find the murderer.<br><br>Joe needs some help, and enlists the services of Tal Linear, owner of The Linear Bar. But sparks begin to fly between the two. As romance heats up between them, they attempt to solve the branding crime.<br><br>As the suspects start to pile up and weird relationships unfold in West Stockton, Joe and Tal begin to unravel a heinous crime. That is, until Tal vanishes and Joe thinks his sleuth buddy is going to be the killer's next victim.<br><br>Does Joe have the skills needed to be a hero and save Tal from the killer's secret agenda and solve the crime? Or will Joe fall flat on his face and lose his reputation as a private investigator as well as his new lover, Tal Linear?

Every time Tsuki faced his toughest enemies, he faced every malevolent version of himself. So, what was destined to be eternal, lingered in a moment of time, when he faced his every version of the dark world. Even though in the midst of nothingness and the world of darkness, they entered into an agreement, he didn't know who had the idea, or who got tired first, who had the idea, but he didn't know, whose it was or if it was a time, it was in battle with the dark versions of the dark multiverse, he was the darkest knight, it could have been another, or all of them... Now, going back to a moment in time, when everything changed, to a moment in time, when Tsuky Miki didn't know how or when she got the idea, but she had a plan, but that plan didn't involve marrying the cat woman, none of them knew. when it started. So they planned, even if they didn't know who but what they did know was one or all of them. at the same time. in a moment when everything changes Tsuky Miki had the idea, he invested in a madness, which was simply, to start plotting, to discover secrets. All this to investigate or all together come to an agreement, but someone, or had a plan, it was a bet, one of them won and they were all in trouble. Then at some point the darkest knight wins realizing it wasn't as much fun as he thought so he returns to a moment in time when everything changed. Now, he was changing his home, inviting him to join manipulation schemes, where he was radically changing his plan of action. now he plays with the hidden beings of the multiverse, amid games, bets and conspiracies, as he tries to save and manipulate. Death is no longer his enemy now, he is involved in infinity, being something long awaited, something that could answer all his questions.

Sparks fly when Chip Cutter, the owner of a vacationing spot for rowdy cowboys, enters Dan Fargo’s Saddling Cowboys store, a retail shop that sells the finest saddles in Stockton County.<br><br>As the heat of the Oklahoma summer rises, so does the passion between Chip and Fargo. However, their budding relationship is threatened when fires break out in downtown Blue Coyote. Fargo’s abusive ex-lover Brent Trigger returns, determined to protect Fargo from the arsonist.<br><br>Fargo takes a personal interest in the fires and sets out to learn the identity of the arsonist. In the process, he begins to unravel other crimes happening in town. Rowdy gangs and nosy reporters push Fargo to the edge, challenging his sanity. Even when the arsonist is behind bars, Brent Trigger remains at large. Can Fargo and Chip put aside their differences, saddle up, and ride off into life’s wide blue yonder together?

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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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?

An anthological collection of tales from legends, and from the townspeople and world of Lovecraft County. Myths and tales of everyday life, which everything can change, without knowing why they would do what leads them to the present situation, between conspiracies and desires. That in addition to being the city of the mafia, it is also the city of the desires of the lovers of its kings and lords of their desires and pleasures, which is the mecca of crime, where crimes and pleasures, in addition to fetishes among the rich, being where the people go in search of their dreams and pleasures, where their fetishes come true. From novels to tales of conspiracies, secrets, and mysteries, among the pleasures, the inhabitants, humans, the dreams, the pleasures, the submissive, of vampires and werewolves, those who can fulfilled your greatest desires and wishes, of the strangest fetishes. Even from the serenity, coming from her tide of sadness and depression to the secrets and mysteries that occur, when her children and husband die, she finds desires, dreams, pleasures, to free herself from pain in the midst of pleasures. Since we've been among rich, poor and bandits, for many years, there is the city of pleasures, where those who meet, know their lords and conspiracies, murders, beyond knives. When the desperate, those who were or were abandoned, discover their masters, those who fulfilled their desires. Selene who is belittled and cast aside by her husband, where she finds her true nature in three men. Countless people from mafia clans, vampires, werewolves, gods, men and monsters, in addition to many who tell their adventures, those who are sweet, problems, in addition to the first part where mysteries and secrets are told, happiness and ambitions . When everyone has sales, between losses, loneliness, conspiracies.

Rugged and sexy Cord Darringer finds himself leaving Stockton County, Oklahoma, for three days when a business meeting for his belt buckle company sends him to Florida. While there, he meets adorable Bradley Hull, a no-nonsense businessman with a fondness for cowboys. Before Cord returns to Oklahoma, he agrees to have a date with Bradley. Unexpectedly the country boy falls for the city boy, and vice versa.<br><br>Cute and charming Bradley always ends up getting burned. Chasing Cord feels safe to him, though. Not only does Bradley’s clothes come off for Cord, but his heart begins to open up to the wealthy cowboy, and he wonders if he has finally met Mr. Right. Is loving Cord a risk worth taking?<br><br>Following his visit, Cord returns to Stockton County alone, but Bradley soon chases after him. But when Bradley arrives, a raging tornado sweeps through the county, destroying everything in its path. Will the two men survive the storm and live happily ever after? Or will the miles that separate them, and the tornado’s fury, keep them apart forever?

The saga of the ancient mystical realms, their twists and turns, countless realms that came from Faerie to the magical worlds. Stories of ancient kingdoms where they came in search of new homes. Their kingdoms fell into decay, when worlds ended, among those who fled attacks and pursuits, countless tales of magical worlds. The werewolf kingdoms that were once persecuted, being the exiles, the refugees from worlds that have come to an end. All this was happening, while the land was going through turmoil, when she got a precise answer on how to deal with her lovers, soul mates and the countless problems that arose with the city she had to administer. So, in the city of Lovecraft, we have the businesswoman and socialite Tsuki Delphos, he is manipulative, rich, spectacular, a great master of machinations, he manipulates and controls behind the scenes. Above all the sin of a seductive and sensual man, her body and mind captivate the men around her, she has the power to control and fascinate any man who passes in front of her, especially the various men in her life, seeking your attention. Since he seeks business, they seek to be close to him, they are always kneeling at his feet, in which he is simply fantastic with an air of seduction, one of the greatest heroes of the mystical and human worlds. Between trying to get more and more involved in the world of pleasure, lust and love, she was giving so much to everyone around her, she had werewolves and vampires rewarding her with their bodies, in which he also tries to remedy and intervene in the affairs of the realms. , in the human world among the werewolf clans, among the demons, the representatives.

Cal Hoke, an onsite pretty boy veterinarian at Riding Ranch in Stockton County, Oklahoma, has a secret he will never share with his ranch hand coworkers: he happens to be in love with the ranch owner, Pax Raulton.<br><br>Straight and sexy Pax is a chiseled, handsome, aggressive businessman at Riding Ranch. For years he has raised and sold thoroughbred Palominos. Pax is a private man who minds his own business on the ranch. When he suffers a head injury caused by one of his prized horses, he spends days in recovery due to amnesia. Pax cannot remember a single detail from his past.<br><br>Under Cal’s personal care and tender touch, Pax is provided with the help he needs to overcome his amnesia. As this healing process takes place, Cal learns Pax has a secret of his own, a secret that will change the two men forever.<br><br>But something lurks in Pax’s history that he has forgotten, a dangerous and charmless someone with the potential to shred Pax’s world with ease. Is the bond between Pax and Cal strong enough to keep them together when the dark secret is exposed? Or will the two cowboys be forced to end their romantic ride together?