Summary:  There are three stories that can stand alone but are related. –Trapper John — Hoss meets a man in the mountains whose life intersects with the Cartwrights a number of times. –Suspicion — Adam’s relationship with Delphine leads to a disastrous turn of events and to Adam leaving, but he meets someone important in France, and on his return, he meets Trapper John. –Belladonna — Murder and what to do about the murderer are at the center of the story. A threat to Adam’s family brings the situation to a crisis.  
Rating: T   Word count: 60,428

Summary: This is a prequel story in which twenty-four-year-old Adam brings home eighteen-year-old Hoss after a Saturday night in town when the large brother has consumed too many beers. 
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,123

Summary:  Adam and Joe go to War, but it’s not your usual brother against brother Civil War story.  There’s not much about war, but there is spying, romance with a little help from a brother, a tale of revenge, and suffering among other things.
Rating: T  Word count: 15,777
Part of the Choosing Series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: A ‘guest’ at the Ponderosa reveals a secret that Adam had warned his father would inevitably be found out.  The family has to deal with the aftermath of the cruel truth.
Rating: T   Word count: 12,471

Summary: This story is a little history of gambling for a good cause in Virginia City with Hoss playing a starring role.  
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,082

Summary: Little Joe Cartwright loves dime novels with all the action and adventure, and that becomes the center of his latest ‘brilliant’ scheme that has the usual unintended and unfortunate consequences.
Rating: T  Word count: 10,599

Summary: A series of stories about Adam’s birthdays from his thirty-first through his thirty-fifth. It is meant to be light-hearted with a little romance.  There is a switch in POV from Adam, to Ben, to Hoss, to Joe, to all throughout the story to see the same events from different perspectives, and to examine the relationship among the brothers as well as to examine Ben’s thought processes too.
Rating: PG  Word count: 13,999

Summary: Adam thinks he will have to make a sacrifice to improve his relationship with his younger brother, but it is Joe who ends up doing that for all the right reasons.
Rating: T  Word count: 15,443

Summary: There’s a guest on the Ponderosa who is very taken with Adam, but she’s only three years old. It’s a Christmas story so there’s trouble but a warm fuzzy ending.
Rating: PG  Word count: 1,181  

Summary: it may start out looking like a serious story, but it’s a fun brothers’ story using songwriting as the major method of the two-against-one scenario and vice versa.
Rating: T  Word count: 2197

Summary: This is both an AU and a WHI for The Search providing an alternate ending for the episode.  The first part of the story is directly from the episode and then the story continues with new material.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2405

Summary: Ben has a difficult time getting the answers to some questions about his sons’ activities.  This is a light-hearted story but does deal with some adult themes.
Rating: T  Word count: 1,805

Summary: At the center of the story is a tragedy (based on a historical event) that leads Adam into a romance and into an adventure.  The results of both will determine his future on the Ponderosa.
Rating: T  Word count: 13,614

Summary:  in the last story in the series, Belle and Adam further develop their relationship, but most of the story is the mystery of Ben’s illness and how his sons react to it.
Rating: PG   Word count: 6,650
Part of the Truth Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  Adam gets some bad news but decides to use those circumstances to do a good deed.  That whole situation turns out to be far more complicated and dangerous than he had imagined until it affects his whole family. 
Rating: T  Word count: 18,031