Summary: Adam gets involved in two cases for the government, but his new career leads to his father having some very bad luck.  The whole family has to come together to resolve the issues.
Rating – T  Word count – 15,685
Part of the Not Guilty Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  What was Adam thinking as not only Bill Enders challenged his story, but his family, friends, and townspeople all doubted his version of events leading up to Toby being murdered? A companion piece for the episode, it makes sense only if you are familiar with The Ride.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2,105

Summary:  After more than five years since Adam was forced to leave, his family has a lot of questions, but it will take time and some luck to get the answers they want, and then they may find they don’t like all the answers either.
Rating: T  Word Count: 41,355

Part of the Not Guilt Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  Joe makes a serious mistake and Adam agrees to help him fix things only to find that he puts himself into a greater problem as others make too many mistakes as well.  Adam needs more help than Joe did, but that help is slow in arriving. 
Rating: T   Word count:  35,315
Part of The Not Guilty Series, links to all stories included within

Summary: Some haunting family history comes back to create problems for the Cartwrights until the true nature of the evil can be dug up.  The theme fits the Halloween season, but this is not a spooky story.
Rating: T  Word Count: 5,217

Summary: AU continuation in which Adam has found his dream but lost some of it too.  He finds his way back west to rebuild both his dream and his connection to his past. 
Rating T  Word Count = 25,444

Part of the Not Forgotten Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  A story for those who are willing to accept an Alternate Universe version of some of the Bonanza story. In this case, it is the story of Ben and Marie and the story of Adam in the prequel years with Adam’s backstory drastically altered. 
Rating:  PG  Word count:  15,477

Part of the Not Forgotten series, links to all stories included within

Summary: In this prequel story, Little Joe’s prank leads to anger and harsh words, but the consequences don’t end there.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,237

Summary: Often, Adam and Joe butted heads over the issues of the Civil War.   After Appomattox and the assassination of Lincoln, it is time for them to resolve their differences.   
Rating T  Word count 2,685

Summary: Hoss and Adam give Little Joe some shooting lessons, but the ones he learns from experience teach him that those first lessons were the best he ever had.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2,194

Summary:  How do you get a sixteen-year-old son or a younger brother to be careful with their first pistol?  You tell them the story of the oldest son and brother and his first pistol to teach them as well as make them willing to follow the rules. Written on another site as a challenge  to use cowboy lingo in a story; definitions are at the end of the story.
Rating: PG    Word count: 6,749

Summary:  A little light summertime story about Adam who isn’t happy with the way his summer is going until he’s faced with robbery and jail.  It turns out better than that sounds. 
Rating:  PG   Word Count:  3978

Summary:  A What Happened Instead for The Decision.  What if the doctor wasn’t able to do the surgery?  Ben recalls conversations he has had with Hoss and the best of his middle son’s attributes.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1243

Summary:  Juliette will be off her game in this story due to her condition, and yet things will work out far better than she wants them to work out.  You’ll have to read it to understand that.  It’s a much more light-hearted story than the previous two, and only the weather is the villain, and well, lady luck plays a role too.
Rating: T  Word count: 8676
The Affair Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary:  WHN for My Brother’s Keeper.  After the accident in which Adam shot Joe, Adam suffers guilt that affects every aspect of his life until Joe comes up with a way to fix that.
Rating:  PG   Word count:  1,680

Summary:  A sequel to A Twisted Affair, this story shows how Adam faces a complex plot against him that gets more dangerous as each step fails to achieve its objective.
Rating: T   Word count:  12,184
The Affair Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary:  in a hotel in a small town in California, Adam has an unsettling experience where a woman years earlier suffered a great tragedy.
Rating:  T     Word count:  1485

Summary:  On a trip via muddy roads, Adam gets to know a feisty young woman, and their verbal jousting begins but doesn’t stop there.  However there are numerous twists and turns in this story with the rest of the family getting involved too, some in a good way, and some not so good.
Rating: T  Word Count: 20,439

Summary:  A NaNoWriMo entry, this story begins when Ben and Adam traveled west and built the Ponderosa and Hoss and Joe joined the family and Inger and Marie are there as well. Then as an adult, Adam traveled to help Hop Sing on a quest, and he finds adventure and love before returning. There is a surprise too in the last chapters that ties the story back to the prequel beginning of the story.
Rating:  T   Word Count:  102,898

Summary:  Based on the episode The Wild One, Hoss has to explain the aftermath of his confrontation with Leif to his family and why it occurred.  They’re especially interested after seeing the condition of the main room when they arrive home.
Rating:  PG   Word Count:  1,127

Summary:  This is number twelve in the Traci series.  A question Adam and Traci have to face is having lost one child, there is the possibility of losing another as their son begins to assert some independence.  They must tread a fine line between responsible parenting and smothering, and don’t do that very well at first.
Rating:  PG   Word count:  7,923
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary:  It seems that not one plan that Adam has seems to go the way he intends until he learns to accept that sometimes you follow plans and sometimes random events take you places you never thought you would go.
Rating:  T
Word Count:  28,513

Summary:  In this prequel, Ben tries for a romantic interlude, but the weather and hay fever conspire against him.
Rating: PG  Word Count: 1,619

Summary: This is a prequel in which Little Joe should learn some lessons about telling the truth and doing what is right, but does he?  Sadly, Little Joe has a habit of only learning the hard way. 
Rating:  PG   Word Count: 1,535

Summary: Adam and Anne have clues about her long lost brothers, trouble with a counterfeiting ring Adam is investigating in his new job for the Treasury Department, and a threat to kill one of the Cartwrights, and all of those are tied together.
Rating: T  WC = 11,299

Summary:   A troublesome spirit invades the Ponderosa and all the family hopes he will be gone on All Saints Day.
Rating PG   WC 1341

Summary:  Adam is recruited to do some dangerous work, but isn’t briefed fully on what the dangers are.  Predictably, he gets in more trouble than he could have imagined, but the help he expected doesn’t come.  The opposite is true.  When he can, he sets out on a quest to find out why.
Rating:  T
Word count:  15,798

Summary:   The last story in this series starts with some informative letters between Adam’s wife and Joe’s wife but progresses into a Christmas visit in which important changes occur for all the brothers.
Rating:  T  WC:  18,845