There’ll come a time your children ask questions, uncomfortable questions. And then you might find answers that’ll help you, too, to cope with what was and is.

970 words, rated T

The Art-Universe seriers, links to all the stories within the series are included.

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: Adam is back in Boston after a 12 year absence. His career has taken off in a prestigious engineering firm; he’s happily married to his college sweetheart, and he’ll be a featured performer at an upcoming choral production. But the life he’s made is destroyed in three weeks after a beautiful stranger hires him to build a wine cellar. He loses his job; his wife thinks he’s having an affair with the stranger, and he’s forced to participate in a federal crime, knowing that he won’t live through it, but hopes to stay alive long enough to protect the people he loves.

Rated: T  WC  28,000

One Step Closer Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  A single shot has devastating consequences for the Cartwrights.

WARNING: CHARACTER DEATH  Rated: MA  WC  8200

Into the Line of Fire Series

Into the Line of Fire
A Singe Shot

Summary:  It´s a brief glimpse at a time Joe needs his oldest brother to prevent him from a big mistake.  

Rated: K  WC 600

Summary: Little Joe is on an errand to Placerville when misfortune strikes … being all on his own he has to place his life in the hands of others who are fighting battles of their own.

Rated: K+ (10,570 words)

Summary:  A simple business trip turns into much more when a robbery takes place and a Cartwright goes missing.

Rating T (17,630 words)

Summary: A young woman seeks the help of Ben and Adam to locate her lost sister.

Rated: K (20,100 words)

Summary:  A visit from Ben’s old friend leads to a startling realization.  

Rated: T   WC 2200

Summary:  After a hotel fire in Sacramento, the survivors must come to terms with what is left to them. A story for all those who have learned from personal experience that even small miracles are sometimes miracle enough.  

Rated: T  WC  7200

Summary:  Five-year-old Hoss makes a dangerous decision, that affects his parents, and especially his older brother.  Adam isn’t adjusted to Marie yet, and the danger Hoss is in makes his problems worse.

Rated: K+  WC 10,000

Summary:  Just how deep of a hole will Joe dig for himself?  And when the consequences of being restricted from the Silver Dollar seem unjust…  Could it get any worse?  This is Joe we’re talking about.

Rating:  K+  (14,030 words)

Summary:  Sometimes the greatest gifts are the most unexpected ones…  

Rated: K+  WC 2500

Summary:  A young man is stricken with Amnesia.  

Rated: K  WC  5600

Summary:  Adam’s getting married! He’s moved to Boston to help his grandfather, and has begun to build a good life there, including an engagement to the girl he fell in love with during college. Their wedding is set to coincide with a unexpected visit from Ben Cartwright. All is well until Adam’s fiancee disappears and Ben and his son set out to find her. Adam battles a worsening illness along with the lies of those involved. He must rely on help from those more familiar with the city and at one point despairs as he asks his father why the women who love him…die. Will there be a wedding or will Adam sink further into loneliness and pain as another opportunity for love is torn away.

Rated: T  WC  82,700

One Step Closer Series, links to all the stories within the series included.