The unexpected arrival of a mysterious group of women complicates—and threatens—Cartwright lives, turning the Ponderosa into a decisive battleground.

Rated: T  (61,600 words)

Summary: This was written for the Chaps & Spurs Literary Challenge in April.  Adam and Joe fight and Ben steps in to help.

Rating:  K+ 800

Summary: An accident while breaking horses sets Joe and the family on a downward spiral as unfounded fears over rule common sense. And when tragedy again strikes on the Ponderosa…will the family ever be whole? 

Rating:  K+   (40,470 words)

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

Summary: With his sons married with children of their own Ben has thoughts of his own future.

Rated: T (278,150 words)

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

Summary: Seeking shelter in a line shack during an early spring ice storm, Joe encounters a family of moonshiners he doesn’t stand the chance of fighting. He can do nothing but hold to the thin hope that his family will reach him in time.

Rated: T  Word Count: 25,000  

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: 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)