Summary:  Eight years have passed since Joe and Bella met. Both have experienced great tragedy. A letter from Ben Cartwright paves the way for them to meet again. But is it too late for their love?  This story takes place post-canon.

Rated PG-13 for adult situations, language, and intense emotional drama. However one section is rated M. (62,200 words)

Wet Bottom, Warm Heart Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  After a cattle drive, Adam gets sick, and when Ben starts getting some of the same symptoms, Joe finds that he has to be the one making the decisions on the journey home. It’s a tough job especially because the outlaws trailing them think they have the money from the cattle drive with them.  Joe has to come up with a plan or two to get them out of all these problems and save their lives.

Rating = T   WC = 12,477

Summary:  A burned out stagecoach lies on its side, the victim of an Indian raid. There’s a name on the coach manifest that makes Joe Cartwright’s heart stand still. Can it be that Elizabeth Carnaby is dead? And, as the man who robbed the coach seeks personal vengeance against Ben Cartwright’s youngest son – can Joe himself survive?

Rated M.  The story is probably a PG-13 one, but for safety sake – and for the sake of one heavy duty romantic scene – I am calling it ‘M’.  Contained in that PG-13 rating would be western brutality and violence, and torture.  (101,760 words)

Wet Bottom, Warm Heart Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: 12 year old Little Joe Cartwright loves black horses, especially the new black mare his brothers found and brought home. Though their father disapproves, Little Joe knows she’s the one for him and sets out to prove it. What do an apparition, a burned out ranch, a stolen fortune, a group of desperate outlaws, and Little Joe Cartwright have in common besides trouble? Mystery.

Rated PG for frightening images and western violence  (25,100 words)

Summary: A sequel to Prodigal Sons with some of the characters from that story. When Adam receives an urgent telegram, calling in a marker, he has no idea what he is riding into. A tale of brothers and the bonds that hold them together, no matter what comes against them. This story does go into OC territory, but it all ties in with our favourite family along the way.

Word Count: 39,542

Rating: T

Prodigal Sons Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: In 2269 an archaeologist digging in the ruins of the Bodie mine on Earth discovers skeletal remains dating to 1876. On the wrist of the dead man, who is wearing a green jacket, is an alien device. Its discovery sends the crew of the Enterprise into the past to Ben Cartwright’s Ponderosa where the eddies of time and an alien menace are moving together to doom Ben’s youngest son.

Rated: PG-13   (77,500 words)

Summary: Pitching brother against brother is a cruel game, but turning father against son is even better. Long buried hatred resurfaces in an unexpected way with devastating consequences for the whole family.

Word Count: 39,834 Rating: T

Prodigal Sons Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: One man’s “Field of Dreams” is another woman’s fantasy. 

Rating: PG  (1,010 words)

Summary: An old friend of Ben’s comes to visit.

Rated: PG (7023 words)

The Way Things Are series, links to all the stories in the series included.

Summary: When Ben leaves on a cattle drive with two of his sons, he has no idea that when he returns home, Joe will be gone. After searching for him, he has to face the very real possibility his son will never return.

Word Count: 13,562 Rating: T

Zusammenfassung: Diese Geschichte führt Candy in die Cartwright Familie ein, in der er einen ruhelosen Joe Cartwright vorfindet, der die Tatsache übelnimmt, dass sein ältester Bruder die Ponderosa verlassen hat. Adam erlebt in der Zwischenzeit seine eigenen Abenteuer, weit weg auf dem Ozean…mit dieser Geschichte startet meine Captain Cartwright Serie, vorrausgegangen ist jedoch die Geschichte I Shall Cherish You Forever.

Rating:  T  (68,645 words)

Summary:  A  sequel to ‘Wet Bottom Warm Heart’. After 11 year old Elizabeth Carnaby saved Little Joe’s life, he promised to bring her to the Ponderosa. She arrives along with a sudden winter storm that blows in not only a little fun but a whole lot of trouble, including a killer named Fleet Rowse who is looking to make easy money by lightening the load in Ben Cartwright’s safe.

Rating:  T  (82,825 words)

Wet Bottom, Warm Heart Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Adam is forced to consider what is important to him, especially when he may have lost someone that is very important to him. A Bonanza prequel story, set just after Adam returns home from college.

Word Count: 16,231

Rating: T

Summary:   The Ophelia Theatre Presents the very first ‘Chippendale’ dancers, featuring Adam and Joe Cartwright; who star in their own private dances later that night.  Written for the 2016 Bonanza Brand 10th Anniversary R-Rated Challenge (aka the ‘Dirty Word’ Challenge)

Rating:  MA  (2,900 words)

THIS STORY IS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT, and intended for mature readers only!  If you are easily offended, please do not continue to the story.

Negotiation Series, links to stories within the series are included.

SUMMARY: 14 year old Joe Cartwright was just trying to do something nice for a friend. Older brother Adam didn’t see it that way. An argument between brothers sets off a series of events that turns into an unstoppable torrent of trouble, which leaves one of Ben Cartwright’s sons with a terrible task to perform and another near death, trapped in the Belly of the Whale.

Rated: PG-13 for mild language and implied adult situations, which do not occur.    WC 76,500