Author: BettyHT
Truth Is What You Make It (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam finds himself in a predicament and needs his family to help him. It lets him recapture the trust he needed to feel that he was truly at home.
rating = T WC = 19808
Truth Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Truth Be Told (by BettyHT)
Summary: The death of Marie and what led to it trigger years of difficulties for Adam Cartwright and his family building the Ponderosa but with trouble holding the family together. The truth can let them move forward but it takes a long time before Ben admits it.
WC = 61660 rating = T
Truth Series, links to stories within the series are included.
What Would Adam Do? (by BettyHT)
Summary: On the occasion of Mark Twain’s death, Adam tells his grandson a story that Mark told him about Adam’s brothers.
rating: K+ WC = 1091
Always With Me (by BettyHT)
Summary: Little Joe wants a solo hunting trip, but he won’t be as alone as he thinks he is when he gets his grand adventure. Story features Joe but Ben and Adam have prominent roles too.
rating = T WC = 1346
Very Much a Cartwright (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam has a new wife who has much to learn about him, about the Ponderosa, and about being a Cartwright, but it turns out that she’s a great learner as she and Adam face a number of difficulties.
rating = T WC = 18676
Very Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Adam’s Very Bad Year and Very Good Years (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam has a lot of things go wrong for him on the Ponderosa causing him to leave. His travels and accomplishments are fulfilling, but despite all the people he meets, he longs for his home and family.
WC = 62739 rating = T
Very Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Ben and “Ma” (by BettyHT)
Summary: An accident caused by Little Joe, and a prank by all three brothers leads to an unexpected result for Ben.
WC 4649 rating PG
Adam’s Very Bad Week (by BettyHT)
Summary: After the Lotta Crabtree encounter, Little Joe is angry with Adam and events increase that as well as his jealousy. Adam is angry and acts accordingly. Ben and Hoss do their best to calm the waters but it takes a crisis to bring the brothers back together again.
WC = 15, 286 Rating = T
Very Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Adam Just and Aida stories (by BettyHT)
Summary: Four Adam and Aida stories; sequels to Adam Just and Aida. The first, Hallucinations, pits Adam against a sinister and clever enemy. The second is meeting between Adam and Aida’s family. The third is a Christmas story in which things just don’t go as planned. The fourth is a story of what happens when some seek to deceive and others make mistakes; Candy also has a romance in that one.
Rating = T WC = 60,527
A Father’s Work Is Never Done (by BettyHT)
Summary: A series of vignettes about Ben’s role as father to three sons. There’s a mixture of humor, concern, anger, regret, and joy so it’s much like the emotions any parent might feel at various times with their children.
Rating: PG WC = 9395
Just the Way They Are (by BettyHT)
Prequel. After Adam returns to the Ponderosa from college, Joe harbors a lot of jealousy of Adam and it colors all of his interactions with his oldest brother. The trip home from a cattle drive and a series of unfortunate events will begin healing the rift between the brothers.
WC = 8613 Rating: T
Adam Just and Aida (by BettyHT)
Summary: Sexually explicit sections in the story that explains why Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for eight years. It is Adam centric but the other Cartwrights have significant parts in the story as well.
Rating MA. WC = 36118
Adam Just Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Kate (by BettyHT)
Story by story in this series, Kate becomes more and more involved in Adam’s life first acting as his nurse several times when he is injured as he faces troubles, and then as his love interest. She has an unhappy past though which Adam has to unravel to win her heart, and then they face heartache as well as joy together. She is introduced in this first story as Adam faces a significant challenge and his family deals with heartache.
WC = 99,150 Rating — T
Hopeful (by BettyHT)
Summary: First part of the story is based in part on the episode The Hopefuls — Adam and Regina had been in love, but circumstances drove them apart. She kept a secret though, and five years later, it will cause dramatic changes in Adam’s life.
Rating T 40,282 words.
Valentine Romance (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam met Meredith when she was a young girl and a friend of Joe’s. When he sees her again, she is a beautiful woman with a sad, dark secret. Love, romance, finding out her secret, and dealing with her past make up the rest of the story.
Rating — T. 30,371 words
