Summary:  Written in response to a Cartwriters challenge in which the first sentence was given.  While looking for strays, fifteen-year-old Joe spots some tracks that he feels compelled to investigate, despite knowing the objections his family would raise.

Rated: K  WC  1700

Summary: A dying man’s warning and a hunter anxious to target the ideal prey set Adam and Joe on a race for their lives.

Rated: T  (36,700 words)

Summary:  Look in the dictionary and you’ll probably see a picture of Hoss right next to the word – Safeguard.  Will Little Joe ever learn to think before he acts?

Rating:  K+  (3,000 words)

Summary:  More than a fish story . . . this tale recounts how loss, memories, and discovery shape the friendships we form and the people we become.

Rated:  T+ —  WC 9700

A series of misfortunes with the opposite sex threatens Joe’s relationship with his family and brings his life into mortal danger.

Rating T Contains scenes and themes that might be considered of an adult nature. WC 44,000

Summary:  Adam has never worried about his father’s faith and trust in him. That changes dramamtically after a woman drops an 11 year-old at the Ponderosa, telling Ben that the boy is Adam’s son, conceived before he left for college. After repeated attempts to defend himself against th accusation, Adam leaves home, angry and hurt by his father’s seeming refusal to accept that the woman is lying. Once Adam confronts his accuser, he is forced to look further to find out how he and his family became targets for her ploy, and pays a high price for trying to find the truth in her life of lies.

Rated: T  WC  60,000

Summary: This is a story that relates events prior to the episode The Avenger, and explains how and why Adam and Ben were arrested and sentenced to hang.

Rated: K+ (53,215 words)

Summary: Adam suffers the results of his adventures in the South China Seas but finds his hearts desire.

Rated: T (282,710 words)

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

Summary: Two brothers plagued by accidents and misfortune, one young man haunted by his own brothers’ deaths, a deadly outlaw with no conscience…and the Cartwright family caught in the crossfire. Follow the trail of the Nevada Territory’s most notorious outlaw through the words of Tumbleweed, a writer aiming to turn a killer into a legend, until that trail dead-ends on the Ponderosa. After the shooting stops, will tragedy be avoided, or simply rewritten? 

Rated: T  Word Count: 14,900 

Summary: A businessman is tired of playing by the rules and uses Ben’s sons to manipulate Ben, himself. It falls to Sheriff Roy Coffee, Deputy Clem Foster and a very determined Hop Sing to prevent the Cartwright family from falling like a house of cards. What results is a high stakes game in which Ben must gamble his full house against his rival’s hidden aces.

Rating:  T   (33, 700 words)

Summary: Joseph Cartwright has to deliver a letter to an old friend of Bens which plunges him into romance, and murder.

Rated: K+ (32,465 words)

Summary: We follow Adam into danger far away in China and enjoy the adventures of the Cartwright family on the Ponderosa, where Ben has a special assignment that brings him into contact with a very old friend.

Rated: T (207,070 words)

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

Summary: What do a nutty professor, an ancient Indian legend, and a dusty sea chest from the attic have in common. Come spend Christmas with the Cartwrights and find out what awaits in this zany, action packed adventure.

Rated: K  (Words 52,169)

Summary: Some people have devils on their heels, chasing them every step of the way. Others invite the devil to walk with them, right in their shoes. When Joe meets a man in chains for doing exactly that, he soon becomes devil’s bait in a deadly endgame for the man’s hollow soul. Can good overcome evil when the devil holds all the cards? 

Rated: T  Word Count: 19,600

Summary: This story looks at Joe’s early life based on the events told in The Wheels of Fate and how it was for him growing up outside of the Ponderosa’s protective wing. Alone as a boy Joe deals with rejection, prejudice, and loneliness.  

Rated:  T (12, 230 words)

The Wheels of Fate Series, links to all the stories within the series included.