Summary: Joe pays the ultimate price when he seeks vengeance on evil Dr Hale who maimed his leg and got off scot-free. Rating T-13, WC 43,800 Family,Drama,Hurt/Comfort Best Medicine Series: Best Medicine Malice Aforethought Coup De Grace  

Summary:  Little Joe is emotionally caught between dark and light when Trenton’s brother Preston devises a plot to capture him by using Pa as bait.  Will he break under the trauma of another captivity? Part three of the Stay in the Darkness series, links to stories provided within.
Rating T, WC 42,240

Summary:  With word of Ben Cartwright’s death, the three Cartwright brothers must decide if they’ll keep the Ponderosa going in order to preserve their father’s legacy.  Meanwhile, it’s Little Joe whose nightly dreams propel him to search for the truth about how his father perished and if he’s really dead. Rating – T, WC 28,200, Family/Drama/Hurt/Comfort 

Summary: The Cartwrights go after the Dalton brothers and Joe struggles to face the horrors done to him in the cabin in order to leave the darkness and come into A New Light.
Rating:  MA (graphic violence and adult subject matter) WC 56,939

Summary: After Joe is found alive after months spent in captivity, his family’s joy is short-lived. Now Ben, Adam, and Hoss must decipher why Joe adamantly insists that for the rest of his life he must “Stay in the Darkness ”     Joe/ family/ Drama/ Hurt/Comfort.
Rating  T-13. Word count 40,990  

Summary: Little Joe couldn’t believe it when Pa turned his back and walked away. Adam had been injured and it was Joe’s fault and Ben refused to get him out of the charges or even post bail. Now after six weeks in the Virginia City jail Joe must face Pa for the first time and make a tough decision about his future. A lesson about love, the tough kind.
Rating T  (word count 21,290)

Summary:  In the long-awaited conclusion of the Every Purpose Under Heaven series, the family helps Joe as he seeks closure.  Along the way he is forced to deal with a friend’s struggle, a gunfight, an injury and an unplanned pregnancy.
Rating:  PG  (36,630 words)
Links to stories within the series are included within.

Summary:  After his father is shot, Joe fights to keep him alive while hiding a deadly secret
Rating: T, WC 28,900 

Summary:  After the death of his dearest friend, Joe takes a downward spiral.  Can his father stop him before he surrenders to old temptations?  This story follows my story, Absolute Faith.
Rating:  T  (24,890)

Summary:  This is a sequel to Always My Son 

Rated: K+  WC 18,000

Always My Son Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: A stranger arrives in town with the intent of ripping the family apart by claiming he’s Little Joe’s real father. 
Rating T, WC 55,000

Summary:  As Little Joe lays trapped under wreckage of his wagon, he is rescued by Hoss who is lying comatose at home.  He then has to convince his father that what he experienced was real.
Rated T, WC 19,000

Summary: Three years after he had put the Cartwrights through the trauma of stealling Marie Cartwright’s casket, Bristol Ford returns with a more sinister plot than before. What he accomplishes changes the relationship between Ben and Joe.

Rating:  T  (66,200 words)

Love’s Last Whisper Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Twelve years after the loss of Marie Cartwright, a man with a grudge against Ben commits the unthinkable; the desecration of Marie’s grave and the theft of her casket. Now, as a combined, yet grieving, force Ben and his boys begin their search for what was rightly theirs. Rating T, WC 40,000

Summary:  Little Joe finds himself desperate for his father’s help to save his life after the evil doctor Steven Hale gets a hold of him and injures him in an act of revenge.
Rated: T, WC 28,000
Links to stories in the series included within.