Author: BettyHT
Charity Series #4 — Let’s Do It! (by BettyHT)
Summary: There are obstacles to Adam and Charity getting married, but Adam finds a solution after overcoming those problems and seeing no other way to calm the waters. There is a budding romance for Hoss too as the story develops.
rating = T WC = 15,839
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Charity Series #3 – Trust Me (by BettyHT)
Summary: With the Ponderosa in severe financial difficulties, Adam makes a rash and perhaps foolish decision to save his father’s dream when he takes a job and it could be the worst decision he’s ever made. He needs his family, Charity, and friends to save him from it.
Rating T (22,820 words)
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Sojourner (by BettyHT)
Summary: In this story written in three acts, Adam’s involvement with a young woman leads to discord within his family and when that is resolved in the first part (chapters 1-6), he leaves on a journey that affects him greatly in the second part (7-13). He will need his family once more to face the future in the third part (14-17).
rating T WC = 46,215
Charity Series #2 – Wounded Hearts (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is the second story in the Charity series and is a WHN for the Bitter Water episode. A mysterious corporation threatens the Ponderosa and the other ranches in the Comstock area. There are shootings, kidnappings, and threats from unknown assailants, and Lem Keith’s daughter’s anger at Adam for perceived wrongs make for a complicated scenario.
Rating = T and WC = 23,448
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Charity Series #1 – Fractured (by BettyHT)
Summary: WHB to the Bitter Water episode. This is the backstory that explains how Adam ended his relationship with Virginia Keith, why there was tension in his friendship with Todd McCarren, and why Lem Keith disliked Adam so much. Charity is introduced in this story and will be part of a series of stories featuring her as the main OC.
rating = T WC = 18586
Charity Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Three By One (by BettyHT)
Summary: It’s an Adam returns story, and he brings two with him. He brings a bit of trouble too and some changes, but he’s got the family on his side, well, after some issues from the past that have to get cleared away first.
WC = 13577 rating = T
Bull (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam has an embarrassing misadventure he would rather not discuss, and his father has a reason to support him in that decision. The two do share their information with each other however.
Rating = T WC = 3969
You Have To Ask the Right Man (by BettyHT)
Summary: New hands play practical jokes that become increasingly a problem and their justification doesn’t sit well with Joe after Adam gets hurt. Response to October Chaps and Spurs challenge.
rating = T WC = 2870
Good Intentions (by BettyHT)
Summary: A prequel story with LJ at thirteen, Hoss at nineteen, and Adam at twenty-five. In the first part, Little Joe decides to be good for three weeks as a gift to his father which sets off a chain of events while Adam decides to ride a couple of difficult horses that sets off a different chain of events. Everything comes together as does the family in time for a Christmas celebration. The second part of the story is a WHB for The Quality of Mercy and features Seth in a prominent role.
rating = T (26,563)
Hauntings and Nightmares (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is a prequel in which Adam returns from college, and Little Joe has bad dreams and bad friends which turn out to be a terrible combination. Trouble on the Ponderosa combines with that to cause a combustible situation and Little Joe is the key to resolving the complex web as he learns some important lessons. It is the key to resolving a problem years later as well.
Rating = T (21,071)
Revelations (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: It’s December of 1864 and Joe is conscripted, but Adam goes in his place. It is a tumultuous ten months and that scripture reading that seemed so ominous seems to come true. Chapter 1 is my NaNoWriMo novel, Revelations, for 2015 and just barely made the minimum number of words at 53,434 and that’s why there’s that little romance at the end. It’s a little lightness too in a story that has a lot of darkness in it. The second chapter is the sequel, Love Never Ends, with the emphasis on Adam’s adjustment to being at home and being in a romantic relationship that has to develop amid turmoil and threats to his life.
Rating = T (72,932 words)
Keep the Home Fires Burning (by BettyHT)
SUMMARY: Joe’s troubles are addressed as he and Ben leave on an extended trip to spend time together so that Joe can face his losses with the man best able to help him come to terms with them. That leaves Hoss and Adam to run the ranch with Candy’s help. There are plenty of fires to put out, some literal and some figurative, as the three find themselves overworked and stressed by the challenges they face.
Rating = T WC = 24,181
Cat Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Halloween Campfire Stories (by BettyHT)
Summary: What is there to do on a dark and rainy evening on a fall cattle drive than to tell spooky stories to entertain each other. Some have humor, some have mystery, and some have a bit of a fright factor. Some may be familiar but keep reading because there’s more added.
rating = T WC = 11,760
Annie’s Story (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam meets a feisty young woman who thinks that arguing means that you care. It’s a tempestuous relationship at times, but loyalty, honesty, courage, and love are the cornerstones of the foundation that supports them through many crises. Although the story is centered on the Adam and Annie relationship, the rest of the family is important to the story and there are changes for all of them too including romances.
rating = T word count = 155,709
Dang, He Smells Good (by BettyHT)
Summary: Three women and one man. How is Adam supposed to choose when all three want him, but he can only romance one. Who will he choose? You get to choose for him.
rating = T WC = 1632
