Summary: A trip to California turns into a nightmare for the Cartwrights when Little Joe is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Rating: Strong PG-13 for violence & physical abuse  (31, 320)

Summary: A what if off “Look to the Stars”.

Rating:  K+  (10,801 words)

Adam and his family deal with the consequences of a difficult choice. A WHN for the episode “Death At Dawn.”

Rating: PG (132,800 words)

Summary: Sequel to “Long Road Back”.

Rating:  K+ (12, 190 words)

Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Heroism comes in all shapes and sizes, as the good folks of Virginia City discover when Sam Dawson and his notorious gang of outlaws hold the whole town under siege—all because Joe tried to help a woman in need and Adam was thirsty for a beer.

Rated: T WC  37,000

Just A… Series, links to all the stories are included within.

Summary:  A what if I got from “The Crucibles”…mostly, what if Ben, Hoss and Little Joe hadn’t found Adam. What if someone else did? And What if Adam didn’t just ‘bounce back’?

Rating K+  (14,570 words)

Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

What if things had gone differently the night Adam had wooed Abigail Jones? What impact can a lost horse shoe, a squirrel and a spider have on a blossoming romance? And had faust gone completely bonkers?

4,000 words, rated K

Hoss talks to Adam while taking care of him.

Ben faces the unthinkable.

And copes.

1,300 words, rated K

Summary: A man from one of Ben Cartwright’s previous lives has come to take revenge on his oldest son, Adam–but it’s Joe who pays the price.

Rated: T  WC  14,000

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Reader Alert:  Violence.  Nudity.  Sexual innuendo.  Rated: T  WC 35,100

Death Valley Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  A storm threatens to keep Ben, Adam, and Joe from returning to the Ponderosa. Adapted from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  

Rated: K (8,700 words)

Summary: A murder on a cattle drive; Joe vanishes and Ben is forced to face the ghosts of the past, bringing his family into terrible danger. Only Hoss’s stoic perseverance and Adam’s selfless heroism can save the life of the youngest Cartwright.

WC 26,000 Rated: T

Summary: A prison break sends Alfred Whitfield, a man on the edge of madness, and Peter Nobridge, an enigma whose alliances are yet to be proven, back to the Ponderosa one year after Adam’s old classmate played a deadly game with Cartwright lives. This time, when the siege begins there is more at stake than mere blood. (This is a sequel to “The Game,” but should offer enough hints to stand alone.) The SJS & SAS are, of course, integral to the plot, and there’s plenty of angst and ES? to go around….

Rated: T   WC  48,300

Games Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: The final episode of the prequel series, It’s Just a Year. Adam has remained home for a year longer than he’d planned before heading for college. In that time, he’s been hazed, poisoned, almost killed and now we find him healthy and camping with Hoss for a final brother’s weekend before leaving for Boston. The idyllic time takes a ominous turn when Adam realizes that someone’s been watching their camp and must soon face his worst fears again and save his brother from the same fate. As with all theses stories, this can be read without reading the others first. This concluding episode brings the two oldest Cartwright boys together for some defining moments.  

Rated: K+  WC  17,000

It’s Only a Year Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

A day at the lake with his brothers is shattered by gunfire, leaving Joe in God’s hands. Follow Joe’s muddled thoughts through his family’s struggle to keep him alive, and his own struggle to focus on where he belongs.

Rated: K+  (6,505 words)