Summary: Pernell Roberts Special Literary Birthday Challenge

Rating:  K  (3,460 words)

the sentence is “When he looked at his hand, it appeared to belong to someone else.”  I made a few changes, because I decided those words would be connected with a woman.

Rating:  T  (1,680 words)

Summary: Adam se trouve accidentellement transporté au 23ème siècle, sur le vaisseau Entreprise du Capitaine Kirk

Rated: K+  WC  10,000

Summary:   A What Happened Instead for The Gamble.   Joe escapes from Alkali and heads towards Virginia City to fetch help.  But what if he never got there?    

Rated: T  (37,450 words)

Summary:  Returning the outlaws to Virginia City to face justice initiates a chain of violent events.

(8,634 words)  Rating:  K+

Harvest Dance Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  The brothers are pursued into Spirit Canyon where they face a powerful and unpredictable foe.

Rating k+  (8,820 words)

Summary: The annual Harvest Dance turns into a harrowing experience for Little Joe.

Rating K+ (7,895 words)

Harvest Dance Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Something special…. that was for a challenge. Not really on Bonanza, but with  the Bonanza’s actors. 

Rating : K  (890 words)

Summary: A continuation of Restoring the Heart of the Ponderosa. The family looks forward to life returning to normal, but find they have a rocky road to travel as nightmares from the past intrude.

Rating:  T (55,125 words)

Summary:  Adam and Shiloh are in their seventh month of marriage and have been busy learning the boundaries of married life and how to live with each of their busy schedules.  They think the ghosts of the past are gone.  The worst is behind them,  In life, things can change in an instant.  They think they’ve learned to compromise. 

Rating: PG-13  Reader Alert: Some violence, mild adult situations 
(159,575 words)

To Everything, There is a Season Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Commodore and Mrs Adam Cartwright await the birth of their first child, but it’s a time that is threatened by danger, the ambitions of a corrupt official and petty thief, and of blizzards.

Rated: K (238,200 words)

Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series are included.

Summary: A Chinese fairy-tale, an all-too-human Hop Sing and a carefree moment of make-believe usher the Cartwrights into a nightmare involving Chinese assassins and a beautiful, young woman two men will do anything to possess.

Rated: T  (29,000 words)

Summary: Wounded, trapped in the desert and surrounded by a renegade band of Bannocks, Paiutes and Shoshones, Adam and Joe prepare for death, unaware of the unfolding chain of tiny miracles that is setting them up for an improbable, last-minute rescue.

Rated: T  Word Count: 23,500

Summary:   When a man rescues one of Ben Cartwright’s sons not once, but twice; the stranger brings huge implications for the family. Will it bring them together or tear them apart?

Rating: Teen+ for mild language, violence, and mild adult situations.   (61,135 words)

Summary: Two unexpected visitors arrive at the Ponderosa within hours of each other: Adam’s favorite professor from college and a blue-eyed Indian with a skewed understanding of Paiute ways and a twisted view of good vs. evil. Join the Cartwrights as they struggle to get through a night of savage terror that marks Little Joe as a target—and his scalp as a trophy.

Rated: T  WC 28,000