Summary:  While searching for a missing ranch hand in the snow, Joe and Adam learn what it really means to have a brother to rely on.

Rated:  T   (8,250 words)

Summary:   Adam and Joe both learn that the ties that bind as brothers can never be severed, not by a lying woman, a rockslide or certain death.  

Rated PG  WC 13,900

Summary: Has God ever tested your faith?  How do you think you scored?  Ben’s faith is tested to the utmost when Joe is crushed by a fallen horse and the only way to relieve his suffering is for Ben to give his son back to God.

Rated G  WC 6500

Summary:  When someone with a grudge against a friend of the Cartwrights starts causing trouble, the Cartwrights are drawn into it.

Rating:  T    (9,570 words)

The High Cost of Pride Series

The High Cost of Pride
The Seeds of Hate

Summary:  A ‘What Happened Next’ for the episode ‘The Last Haircut.’

Rated:  T  (8,515 words)

Summary:  The opportunity for Adam to help out a holidaying professor with his research seems wonderful. But is it too good to be true? And who will pay the price for the professor making Adam do something Against His Will?

Rated:  T  (8,840 words)

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.

Synopsis: Joe returns home late from a trip and finds that Ben, realizing Joe was going to be late, has sent Hoss to Pineville in place of him. All seems well until Ben and Joe receive a telegraph from Pineville informing them of an unfortunate shootout resulting in Hoss’s death. As Ben needs time too himself to grieve, it is up to his youngest son to pick up the responsibilities around the ranch and push aside his own feelings to allow his father this time. Moving from one responsibility to the next keeps Joe from thinking about the tremendous loss he feels until a couple of days later when he comes across a letter in his father’s desk addressed to him………from his brother, Hoss.
Rating:  Teen     Word Count:  8,100

Summary:  A WHN for Credit for a Kill.

Rating:  T   (15,700 words)

Summary:  A WHN for Credit for a Kill.

Rating:  T   (15,700 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.

Summary:  Joe’s depression after Clay leaves is worrying the whole family. What can they do to help him recover?

Rated:  T    (9,940 words)