Category: Family
Stories that focus on the entire family
A Question of Intent (by DebbieB)
Summary: Was his intent purely to talk to Billy Walker, or was he actually intending to seek revenge? When the younger man is killed, and Joe is charged with murder, Joe begins to question his real intent.
Rated: R for fight scenes and death (19,860 words)
Cartwright Saga # 1 – The Lawyer (by Lyn Robinson)
Summary: This is the first chapter of a Cartwright Saga involving all four of the family, explaining Adam`s absence but with his eventual return.
Rating: G (30,350 words)
Becoming A Man (by Christy)
Summary: When the Cartwright brothers have to face their worst nightmare, Little Joe decides to take matters in to his own hands. Will he survive to show his family he really is the man his father raised?
Rating G (10,520 words)
That Which Makes a Better Man (by Camera Chic)
Summary: After Ben and Adam arrive back at the Ponderosa to find Joe beaten, starved and almost dead, tied in his room, the Cartwrights search for the answer to the question, “Why?”.
Rating: PG-13 for violence (21, 030 words)
Silence in the Storm (by Rona)
Summary: An accident brings new realisations to Joe and Adam.
Rated: K (10,920 words)
The Empty Box (by DebbieB)
Summary: When word reaches Ben and Joe telling them that Hoss has been murdered, father and son must each learn to deal with their own grief. A journey to retrieve their loved one’s body leads them to an empty box and two missing brothers instead of just one. Where’s Adam?
Rated: G (18,540 words)
Broken Promise (by DebbieB)
Summary: Unable to keep a promise he made to his father, Joe must now pay the price. Is it too high? Can Ben forgive and learn to trust his most impetuous son once more?
Rated: G (11, 470 words)
A Fistful of Regret (by DebbieB)
Summary: When he accidentally punches Joe instead of Adam, Hoss is consumed with guilt. Will Joe lose his hearing? Will the youngest Cartwright ever forgive his gentle hearted brother for the injuries he sustained from the powerful blow to the side of his head? Will Hoss forgive himself or will he forever carry, a fistful of regret?
Rated: G (10,600 words)
Vengeance (by Lynnette Smith)
Story Summary: When a Jack Devon is out for vengeance for the death of his son, Joe is severely wounded and almost killed. Devon is thrown in jail and all seems to quiet down but it soon becomes clear that more then just Devon’s son Jimmy would like to finish the job.
Rating and Reader alerts: PG
Words: 4,600
Toby (by HelenB)
Summary: Adam allows five year old Joe to bring home a stray dog, not knowing the heartache that will follow.
Rating: T (5,260 words)
A Royal Pain (by DebbieB)
Summary: Adam and Hoss think their littlest brother is a royal pain…but Ben is beginning to think all three of his sons are a royal pains, and the knowledge soon leads him to taking refuge in the hayloft.
Rated: G (9,075 words)
The Final Sacrifice (by Rona)
Summary: An outbreak of measles set in motion a series of heart-breaking problems for the Cartwrights.
Rated: T (11,130 words)
The Hangin’ Tree (by DebbieB)
Summary: Left hanging from an old oak tree to die a horrific death, Joe’s life takes on a strange twist when he is cut down. An old mountain woman that he meets, isn’t what she appears to be. Neither is anyone else it seems
Rated: PG13 for violence (30,700 words)
Half of Nothing, All of Everything (by DebbieB)
Summary: Dan, Bobby and Cody have decided that they don’t want Joe’s kind at school any more. But just what is Joe’s kind? And what did they mean when they told him that he was half of nothing? Can he find the courage to prove to everyone, including himself, that he’s much more than that to those who love him most?
Rated: PG13 for fight scenes. (8,700 words)
For the Love of Little Joe (by Christy)
Summary: When Little Joe is presumed dead and then shows up in Virginia City three years later, how will his past affect his future and how will lives be changed in finally bringing him home for good?
Rated PG (27,180 words)





































