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)

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)

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.

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

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

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

Summary:  Gone for many years, two men make their way back to the Ponderosa and the family that misses them. They don’t know each other, but they end up in a critical situation that brings them close together and that leads to many changes for all.

Rating = T   WC = 42,544

Cat Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  This is a continuation of the Garden Party and Wearing a Frown stories with the same characters, but this is a much lighter story with humor especially with Adam’s son Lake and with romances for Ben and Hoss too although there are complications of course.

rating = T  WC =  31,583

Irae Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  The story continues with the characters of the Garden Party and begins with Adam and Joe at odds,  but that doesn’t last as they adjust to the needs of each other and then have to rely on each other to survive in a difficult situation.  They will need their family and others to escape their predicament and return home.  

rating = T  WC  = 24,120

Summary:  Inspired by some Ricky Nelson songs, this story begins with Adam arriving home disillusioned and cynical after many years away. At a party thrown by his father to celebrate his return, he meets someone who begins to change his attitude and will change his future as soon as he allows it.  Adam changes her life too although there are some who do their best to try to prevent the two from being together. 

rating = T    WC = 35,173

Irae Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Camp In the Pines 2015 challenge story.  Adam holds a secret but can’t tell because of injuries so it is up to his brothers and father to try work out who hurt him, why, what they might do next, but most importantly, how to stop them.  It’s his youngest brother who proves to be invaluable in working out what they have to do until the oldest can recover enough to tell them what he knows.  

rating = T  WC  = 13,018

Summary:  A story to try to answer questions left unanswered in The Crucible, it begins with Adam’s attempt to leave Kane’s camp at night.  The first part is a WHIB and then it will be a WHN when Adam is rescued and has to answer some questions to himself and to his family trying to understand what happened and make sense of it.  

rating – T    WC = 13,659

SUMMARY:  Adam has been gone for six years and for four of those years, Ben has not heard from him. His last letter said he was coming home and that he had a surprise. Then Candy drops a huge bombshell during a casual conversation that leads to a trip to Texas and the beginning of much turmoil for the family.  

rating = T  WC = 25,065

Summary: WHI for Death at Dawn in which the plot by Bryant is more complex than simply trying to save Farmer Perkins. Adam’s apparent failure to save his father as well as other events shake his confidence in his abilities, and it will take several crises and support from his family for him to regain his self-confidence.

Rating = T  WC = 38683

Summary:  A family moves into the Virginia City area intent on causing trouble that will allow them to gain riches or so they believe. They do everything that they can to make that come true, but when they attack Adam Cartwright, things don’t work out the way that they hoped because they find that you can’t win when you come up against the Cartwright family.  

rating = T   WC = 23,554

Rosalie Series, links to stories within the series are included.