Summary:  Little Joe, battling his conscience, refuses to tell his father why he was beaten up, until a neighbor’s barn is burnt and the Cartwright’s barn almost meets the same fate, with more than just their horses trapped inside.

Rated:  G (15,000 words)

Summary:  Eight years after falling in love with a woman whose husband he killed, Joe comes face to face with a young man who once promised to avenge his father.

Rated:  PG (14, 125 words)

Gossamer Dreams Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary:  Joe, so wrapped up in self-pity, and fed up with his family’s constant teasing, takes a long ride that ends up leading him straight into disaster and his first real taste of what it’s like to be the big man of the family.

Rated:   G (10,325 words)

Summary:   ‘And love is sheer magic for it’s woven of Gossamer dreams, enchantingly real, that people in love are privileged to feel.’  Found unconscious and near death, a young destitute woman and her two children take Joe Cartwright home with them in hopes of saving his life.  Love blossoms, but Joe knows something about the woman’s husband…and his conscience forces him to share it with her.

Rated:  PG (19,150 words)

Gossamer Dreams Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary:  “Sooner or later, the day will come when a man will force you into a shootout, and there will be no way out of it, except kill or be killed.” Adam shared a bit of wisdom with his youngest brother the day that Joe was permitted to wear a sidearm for the first time.  Little did either brother realize how soon those words would come back to haunt them.

Rated:  PG for mild violence  (12,850 words)

Summary:  Adam and Joe thought their woman problems were over when Adam told his fiancée, Rachel Stanrick, to get out.  Who would have thought she’d have the audacity to return three years later and insist that Adam marry her? What could she possibly do that would make Adam change his mind about how he feels towards her?

Rated:  PG 13 (13,490 words)

A Choice to Make Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

DebbieB passed away Christmas 2021. Any reader wishing to read this story should e:mail the Brandsters:  Brandsters2020@gmail.com

DebbieB passed away Christmas 2021. Any reader wishing to read this story should e:mail the Brandsters:  Brandsters2020@gmail.com

Summary:  Ben is away, and Adam is planning for his wedding to the beautiful Rachel Stanrick.  Joe knows something about the lovely lady that would break his brother’s heart, but he’s afraid to tell Adam.  Not quite fifteen, Joe is hard pressed to know how to deal with the situation, especially since he’s been made a party to deception.

Rated:  PG  (18, 100 words)

A Choice to Make Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary:  When a day of fun turns into tragedy and Little Joe is held to blame, Joe must now learn to live with the death of his new friend. Help comes from the one person least suspected of caring about Joe’s feelings.  

Rated PG  WC 14,600

Summary:  When Joe becomes sick with cholera and his life slowly begins ebbing away, Ben’s faith is put to the test.

Rated:  G (8,690 words)

Summary:  Hoss, tired of his younger brother always being under foot, wishes that Little Joe would just go away and leave him alone.

Rated:  G (8,850 words)

Summary:  Adam has finally found what he has spent a lifetime searching the world for.

Rated G   WC 3100

Summary:  Away on business once again, Joe writes a letter home, accusing his father of purposely sending him away on every holiday.

Rating:  G  (1,900 words)

Summary:  Those who laugh last, laugh the hardest.  Thus, Joe proves this statement to be true, but at what cost?

Rated:  G  (18,200 words)