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:  Just what was Adam supposed to do when he returned to Virginia City only to hear malicious talk concerning Hoss?

Rating:  K+  (1,400 words)

After a long day out in the rain, Adam longs for more than a hot drink and a hearty meal, and he knows where he’ll find it.

4,400 words, rated K

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

Summary:  Die kleine nachweihnachtliche Geschichte spielt in der Nacht zum sechsten Januar 1846 auf der Ponderosa. Und beginnt damit, dass Adam aus dem Schlaf gerissen wird ….

(Erstveröffentlichung in der deutschen Bibliothek im Dezember 2011)  

Rated: K+  WC 2300

Adam and Joe fall in love with the same woman, and Ben has a secret that may well tear the Cartwrights apart.

Rated: T WC 30,200

Clementine Hawkins’ story – how an English artist came to settle down in Virginia City. And what is it with her and Ben Cartwright? Set in the Art-universe, but definitely a stand alone.

1,800 words, rated T

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

Prequel set in Adam’s college years in Boston. A formal ball, a friendly social, a red dress, a flamingo, and the sea, the sea! The beginning of Adam’s complicated love life, and, somewhere beyond the sea, someone’s first tentative steps into becoming The Queen. Can be read by itself, yet it is a part of the “Art” series, and best read after “The Art of Setting Priorities”.

12,750 words, rated K

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

Summary:   Ben is lying on his death bed when three ghostly visitors from the past step in to change the course of fate.

Rating K+ / Word count 1,410

Summary:  Amelia writes a letter to her departed brother informing him on the on goings of the Ponderosa including the scams and trouble Little Joe and Hoss had gotten themselves into.  

Rated: K+ (1,210 words)

Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Christmas on the Ponderosa is, more or less, always the same. Yet this year, there’s a certain moment of unpredictability: there’s a visitor staying over the holidays who could jeopardise it all…or make it extra special. And maybe she even knows a better present for Adam than yet another book….

3,200 words, rated K

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

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:   Written for the Michael Landon’s 2011 Birthday – Literary Exercise where we had to put all the words of the song “Be Patient with Me” somewhere in our story.  

Rated: K (1,295 words)

Summary:  In the aftermath of Ben’s death, Joe finds comfort from an unexpected source.  

Rated: K+ (2,040 words)

Summary:  Strange things abound when the family takes shelter in an abandoned Victorian era house, but is it really abandoned?

Word Count:  8100  Rated:  T

Summary:  Hoss comes across two little boys when seeking shelter from the rain…and somehow they just got to talking about the rain, a flood, an ark and a rainbow.

Rating:  K  (4,900 words)