One Bullet->: Wounded and running out of time, Joe’s only hope is his ability to believe that a single bullet can make any difference at all.

Holding to Hope->: (Sequel to One Bullet.) In the wake of Annie Grainger’s murder, Joe’s family and hers are brought together in bitterness, compassion, and a shared need for hope: one, for survival of the body; the other, for survival of the soul.

WC  10,200

Summary: A dying man’s warning and a hunter anxious to target the ideal prey set Adam and Joe on a race for their lives.

Rated: T  (36,700 words)

Summary:  Sad news drives Ben to a quiet hilltop, where he finds a moment of grace in a silent snowfall.  

Rated: K   WC  1900

And This Gives Life to Thee Series

And This Gives Life to Thee
Slings and Arrows… and Snowballs

Summary: Two brothers plagued by accidents and misfortune, one young man haunted by his own brothers’ deaths, a deadly outlaw with no conscience…and the Cartwright family caught in the crossfire. Follow the trail of the Nevada Territory’s most notorious outlaw through the words of Tumbleweed, a writer aiming to turn a killer into a legend, until that trail dead-ends on the Ponderosa. After the shooting stops, will tragedy be avoided, or simply rewritten? 

Rated: T  Word Count: 14,900 

Summary: A businessman is tired of playing by the rules and uses Ben’s sons to manipulate Ben, himself. It falls to Sheriff Roy Coffee, Deputy Clem Foster and a very determined Hop Sing to prevent the Cartwright family from falling like a house of cards. What results is a high stakes game in which Ben must gamble his full house against his rival’s hidden aces.

Rating:  T   (33, 700 words)

Summary: Some people have devils on their heels, chasing them every step of the way. Others invite the devil to walk with them, right in their shoes. When Joe meets a man in chains for doing exactly that, he soon becomes devil’s bait in a deadly endgame for the man’s hollow soul. Can good overcome evil when the devil holds all the cards? 

Rated: T  Word Count: 19,600

Summary: Four full grown Cartwrights—and one overworked Doc Martin—being bested by a bunch of angry, young Shoshoni boys could provide fodder for some uproarious saloon talk…if they can live long enough for their story to be told.

Rated: T  WC  18,500

Summary:  Adam returns home to stay, after a loss helps him to be ‘found.’

Rated: K+  Word Count: 4,700 

And This Gives Life to Thee Series

And This Gives Life to Thee
Slings and Arrows… and Snowballs

Summary:  An Indian woman who ‘haunts’ young, tenderfoot Joe during a cattle drive gives him a night he’ll never forget.

Rated:  MA  Contains scenes of a sexually-explicit nature.   Word Count: 1,520

Summary: Joe makes an instinctive, impulsive decision to help a widow and her family, bringing his own family along for the (bumpy) ride.

Rated: T (24,500 words)

Summary: Heroism comes in all shapes and sizes, as the good folks of Virginia City discover when Sam Dawson and his notorious gang of outlaws hold the whole town under siege—all because Joe tried to help a woman in need and Adam was thirsty for a beer.

Rated: T WC  37,000

Just A… Series, links to all the stories are included within.

Summary: When Hoss’s life is hanging in the balance, Joe gives no thought to the limits of his own strength.

Rated: K+  WC  2800

Part I:  The Darkest Hour: When Joe is missing, he’s not the only one trapped in darkness.

Part II:  No One: Even after Joe comes home, a part of him remains lost.

Rated: T  Word Count: 22,500

Summary: A man from one of Ben Cartwright’s previous lives has come to take revenge on his oldest son, Adam–but it’s Joe who pays the price.

Rated: T  WC  14,000

Summary: A prison break sends Alfred Whitfield, a man on the edge of madness, and Peter Nobridge, an enigma whose alliances are yet to be proven, back to the Ponderosa one year after Adam’s old classmate played a deadly game with Cartwright lives. This time, when the siege begins there is more at stake than mere blood. (This is a sequel to “The Game,” but should offer enough hints to stand alone.) The SJS & SAS are, of course, integral to the plot, and there’s plenty of angst and ES? to go around….

Rated: T   WC  48,300

Games Series, links to all the stories within the series included.