Category: Family
Stories that focus on the entire family
Three Brides for Three Brothers (by Monette)
Synopsis: At age 16 Joe is already smug about the number of girls he dates, and teases his brothers about being too slow to get hitched. Hoss and Adam find the perfect vengeance when a widow woman and her three daughters come looking for Ben’s help with her son’s unjust guilty verdict. Ben is suspicious, but when he eventually catches on not only to what the elderly woman was up to but also why Adam and Hoss have planned such an elaborate party celebration, he sits backs and waits for the fun.
Rating: Teen
Words: 12,477
Disenchanted (by DebbieB)
Summary: When Ben advertises back east for a new school teacher and gets a mail order bride instead, things start going haywire for the four Cartwrights, especially Ben.
Rated: PG (8,000 words)
Big Brother Hoss (by DebbieB)
Summary: Joe worships his older brother Hoss, more so after being beaten by a gang of bullies who hold a grudge against the older brother. Hoss then deems it his duty to become his younger brother’s protector.
Rated: PG13 Contains some graphic fight scenes. (22,375 words)
The Power of Love (by DebbieB)
Summary: Adam and Joe are at it again. When Joe’s temper gets the better of him and he screams out an obscenity, unknowingly cutting his usually reserved brother to the deepest core, Adam retaliates. The end result happens when brother must save brother from a pair of thugs with a grudge against Adam.
Rated PG WC 24,300
Back Where We Started (by JillP)
Synopsis: Following Hoss’s death, Adam returns to run the ranch with Joe and their father. After an ambush goes wrong, the brothers are separated, one severely wounded, the other lost.
Rating: PG (31,225 Words)
Memories of Love #6 – To Rage in Heaven (by Diana G)
Summary: Adam has to return to his wife with a secret that may destroy their marriage. How will Becky react when he tells her?
Rating T (36,900 words)
Memories of Love Series, links to all stories within the series are included.
The Shooting (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: There’s a robbery and hostages. Decisions to be made and the consequences to suffer.
Rating: T (870 words)
No Winning (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: A casual question ties Ben in knots.
Rating: K+ (1,060 words)
The Art of Parenting: Lesson Three (by the Tahoe Ladies)
This is Part 3 of The Art of Parenting trilogy. Rated K Word Count: 4370
The Art of Parenting Trilogy, links to all stories within the series are included.
Kicks Like a Mule (by Gwynne)
Summary: A seriously injured Adam must deal with the urgent need to get the ranch ready for winter, and try to solve a domestic mystery while coping with insistent pain that immobilizes and distracts him.
Rating: T (21,700 words)
Twenty Years Hard Labor (by DebbieB)
Summary: Two years after the death of his wife, Ben is found guilty of a crime he did not commit and is sentenced to a long prison term. Left with no one to help him but his father’s close friend, Charlie Devlin, Adam struggles to keep his father’s family and his empire from crumbling.
Rated G WC 20,000
Honor Series # 5 – Reclaimed Love (by the Tahoe Ladies)
Summary: Season 15 continues – episode 5 A continuation of the Honor Series
Rated: T Word Count: 45300
Honor series, links to all stories within the series are included.
Stranger No More (by MeiraB)
Synopsis: A short “what happened next” for the episode “A Stranger Passed This Way”. It shows what might have been discussed at the Cartwright breakfast table the morning that Hoss recovered his memory, but forgot his period of amnesia.
Rating: G
Words: 2,350
The Problem with Ezra (by Krystyna)
Summary: Sometimes certain people are overlooked until a situation arises when they can not be ignored any longer, which really was the problem with Ezra.
Rating: G (4,510 words)
Frightened Beyond Reason (by DebbieB)
DebbieB passed away Christmas 2021. Any reader wishing to read this series should e:mail the Brandsters: Brandsters2020@gmail.com
