Summary: “Did Saunders shoot Little Joe, Ben?” The sheriff asked.  “No, Roy, I did,” Ben answered succinctly, watching his youngest son glaring over at him from across the room. Rating T, WC 31,541

Summary: After a few too many heartbreaks, Joe promises himself he’s done with serious romances. No one really believes him, and his resolve is tested when a pretty stranger’s carriage breaks down on the Ponderosa. Will a romance finally end well, or will it just mean yet another heartbreak?
Rating: G | Word Count: 60,221

Summary: All roads lead to home, in the end. (Final chapter of the More than a Memory series, which begins with Adam following the season 5 episode “Triangle.” Links to previous stories provided)

Rating PG   Word Count:  3711

Summary: When a woman from Marie’s past helps Little Joe reconnect with his mother in a mysterious and dangerous way, Ben finds out and tries to stop her before it’s too late. Rating T, WC 31,959

Summary: Their first little bird has left the nest, and more change is on the way for Adam and Moira.
(Part of the More than a Memory series, written for Camp in the Pines 2026)

Rating: T   Word Count: 3447

Summary: When Little Joe goes six weeks without getting into trouble Pa allows him to stay home alone thinking that he was no longer a trouble magnet. Pa was very wrong. Rating T, WC 16,585 Part 3 of the Trouble Magnet Series, links included within.

As Adam copes with single parenthood, his middle child experiments with gravity. She discovers that it doesn’t bend to her will but perhaps her father understands her more than she thinks.
RATING: G    WORD COUNT: 37,631

Summary: Amelia Swanson and her daughter, Abigail are on the run from a former friend of Amelia’s late husband who is after her inheritance, and she finds refuge with the Cartwrights.  
Rating: PG  Word Count: 41,735
Part of the Forever Reimagined series, links to all stories included within.

Summary: Adam left home to pursue a dream but it didn’t work out. Returning wasn’t an option so he chose a different course that eventually brought him home during a crisis. Adam and Candy are the most prominently featured characters.
Rating: PG  Word count: 15,594

Summary: Ben gets word that Joe is lying wounded in Sand Dust after being chased through the desert by a psychopath and hurries to find him while reflecting on the lives of all his sons. Inspired by “The Hunter.”
Rating T, WC 28,821

Summary:  A continuation of the Home is the Sailor Series
Rating:  PG   (164,925 words)
Links to the earlier stories contained within.

Summary:  Adam is determined to know why Ben Cartwright always refused his sons’ requests for a family dog.  This was written for the 2026 Lorne Green’s Birthday Challenge which required the author to write a Carwright story that included a dog in honor of Lorne’s love of dogs.  
rating: teen  word count : 2843 

Summary: Little Joe proves again that he’s his own worst enemy and a trouble magnet when he causes so much mayhem at the ranch that it leaves Pa stunned. 
Rating T, WC 13,489
Part 2 of The Trouble Magnet Series, links included within

Summary: All Ben Cartwright wanted was one day without Little Joe getting hurt in some way.  Pa learns never to tempt fate again once he returns home that night.
Rating T, WC 10,618
Part 1 of the Trouble Magnet Series, links included within

Summary: After an attack from a Paiute tribe leaves Candy and his wife, Hannah fighting for their lives, they receive help from an unlikely ally.
Rating: PG  Word Count: 7,256
Part of the Forever Reimagined series, links to all stories included within.