Summary: Two opposites collide, a serial killer targeting young men and 17 year old Little Joe whose cavalier attitude puts him in harm’s way. 
Rating: T Word Count: 31,000

Summary: When Joe tries to break a black stallion he learns that he should’ve listened to his Pa as the cost proves to be too high..
Rating T  WC 11,120  

Summary: After a serious head injury wipes out part of Pa’s memory, Doctor Martin is unsure if Ben will ever remember one of his sons. 

Rating T  WC 24,300 

Summary: Joe pays the ultimate price when he seeks vengeance on evil Dr Hale who maimed his leg and got off scot-free. Rating T-13, WC 43,800 Family,Drama,Hurt/Comfort Best Medicine Series: Best Medicine Malice Aforethought Coup De Grace  

Summary:  Little Joe is emotionally caught between dark and light when Trenton’s brother Preston devises a plot to capture him by using Pa as bait.  Will he break under the trauma of another captivity? Part three of the Stay in the Darkness series, links to stories provided within.
Rating T, WC 42,240

Summary:  With word of Ben Cartwright’s death, the three Cartwright brothers must decide if they’ll keep the Ponderosa going in order to preserve their father’s legacy.  Meanwhile, it’s Little Joe whose nightly dreams propel him to search for the truth about how his father perished and if he’s really dead. Rating – T, WC 28,200, Family/Drama/Hurt/Comfort 

Summary: The Cartwrights go after the Dalton brothers and Joe struggles to face the horrors done to him in the cabin in order to leave the darkness and come into A New Light.
Rating:  MA (graphic violence and adult subject matter) WC 56,939

Summary: After Joe is found alive after months spent in captivity, his family’s joy is short-lived. Now Ben, Adam, and Hoss must decipher why Joe adamantly insists that for the rest of his life he must “Stay in the Darkness ”     Joe/ family/ Drama/ Hurt/Comfort.
Rating  T-13. Word count 40,990  

Summary: Little Joe couldn’t believe it when Pa turned his back and walked away. Adam had been injured and it was Joe’s fault and Ben refused to get him out of the charges or even post bail. Now after six weeks in the Virginia City jail Joe must face Pa for the first time and make a tough decision about his future. A lesson about love, the tough kind.
Rating T  (word count 21,290)

Summary:  In the long-awaited conclusion of the Every Purpose Under Heaven series, the family helps Joe as he seeks closure.  Along the way he is forced to deal with a friend’s struggle, a gunfight, an injury and an unplanned pregnancy.
Rating:  PG  (36,630 words)
Links to stories within the series are included within.

Summary:  After his father is shot, Joe fights to keep him alive while hiding a deadly secret
Rating: T, WC 28,900 

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