Author: BettyHT
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