Summary:  After his father is shot, Joe fights to keep him alive while hiding a deadly secret
Rating:  Teens  28,500 words

Summary:  After the death of his dearest friend, Joe takes a downward spiral.  Can his father stop him before he surrenders to old temptations?  This story follows my story, Absolute Faith.
Rating:  T  (24,890)

Summary: In 1873, the deaths of Hoss and Alice so close together left Ben and Joe physically and emotionally, bankrupt. Father and son masked their grief, each hiding serious health issues from the other. By a miracle, both men survived and in the aftermath, Dr. Paul Martin prescribed the whole truth and nothing but the truth as a remedy. In 1875, their pact is still intact…or is it? A sequel to “My Father’s Heartbeat.” It is helpful but not necessary to have read the first story.

Rated: T Word Count:  18,438
Part of the My Father’s Heartbeat Series, links to stories included within

Summary: Adah Menken and John C. Regan return to Virginia City stirring up old emotions and creating new trouble for the Cartwrights.

Rated PG-13 for western brutality, violence and adult situations

Word count: 55, 282

Summary:  This is a WHN for the episode “A Far, Far Better Thing.”  
Rating:  T
Word Count:   6320

Summary: It is 1847 and such a winter had never been seen!  Snowstorms and squalls.  Sleet and ice.  Winds so ferocious they built drifts high as a man.  Driven by a need to escape the memory of his late wife, Ben Cartwright ventures out into a frozen landscape and becomes lost.  As he seeks a way to survive, he has no way of knowing that another member of the family has become lost as well.  Will the killer snow claim two Cartwright lives?
Rated PG
Word count 20,990

Summary: This is a prequel in which Little Joe should learn some lessons about telling the truth and doing what is right, but does he?  Sadly, Little Joe has a habit of only learning the hard way. 
Rating:  PG   Word Count: 1,535

SUMMARY:  Joe is quite the talker especially when it involves finding a way to avoid work, but it is more difficult when his father is right there.  He’s clever enough though to find a way that even his father appreciates.

Rating:  PG    Word Count:  1321

Summary: Healing is hard, and takes its own path. A post-Hoss, post-Alice story.

Rating: K+   Word Count: 23,500

For all the mothers out there who give us so much.
An innocent comment by the reverend at church sends 40 year old Ben Cartwright on a journey into his young son’s hearts.  
Rated: G
Word count: 3427

Summary:  It’s never easy seeing your youngest taking another step towards manhood. 

Rating:  G  (715 words)

Tears of Growing Up Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: An intruder takes advantage of an innocent little boy in order to rob the Ponderosa.

Rated K+

WC=2328

Summary:  Have you ever wanted something so badly that you’d do anything to get it? Let’s just say Little Joe and his best friend Mitch find out the hard way that sometimes finders keepers end up being finders weepers. Contains reference to corporal punishment.

Rating:  K+ (4,485 words)

Summary: Ben and Little Joe discuss his father’s three wives.

Rated: K  Word count: 658

Summary:  Joe gambles with his life to give his Pa something precious.

Rated:  K  WC  900

Summary:  Originally written for a Chaps and Spurs Challenge, now slightly revised. Joe did it again, but was it really so bad?  

Rated: K (1,145 words) 

Summary: When Richard Darvey is out for revenge on Ben Cartwright for the death of his son, Joe must decide how much he is willing to give to protect his father. When Darvey fails to claim his revenge on the Cartwrights it becomes quite clear that someone other then Darvey will stop at nothing to see both Ben and Joe dead.
Rating and Reader Alerts: PG
Words:  4,480

Story Summary:  A new woman in Ben’s life stirs up conflict for Joe.
Rating:  G
Words:  13,380

Summary:   Ben struggles with saving Joe’s life having already dealt with an incompetent replacement physician.

Rated T  WC 11,000

The Best Medicine Series, links to all stories within the series are included.

Summary:  A Part of the Main is the third story in this series.  

Rated: T  WC 22,000

Whatever It Takes Series, links to all stories of this series included.

Summary:  Absolute Faith is the second story in this series.  

Rated: T  WC  32,000

Whatever It Takes Series, links to all stories of this series included.

Summary:  This is part 3 of a Trilogy.  

Rated: T  WC 34,000

The Promise Trilogy, links to all stories of this series included.

Summary:   When Ben tries to teach Joe a lesson, it is he that learns a greater one.
Rated:  PG
Word Count:  64,940