Summary: Adam Cartwright knows well there are some things in this world that money can’t buy, and other things are priceless. (Part of the Ties That Bind AU series)

Rating: K+    (1,425 words)

Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  A  sequel to ‘Wet Bottom Warm Heart’. After 11 year old Elizabeth Carnaby saved Little Joe’s life, he promised to bring her to the Ponderosa. She arrives along with a sudden winter storm that blows in not only a little fun but a whole lot of trouble, including a killer named Fleet Rowse who is looking to make easy money by lightening the load in Ben Cartwright’s safe.

Rating:  T  (82,825 words)

Wet Bottom, Warm Heart Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  A conversation overheard at a party evokes Adam’s memories of Marie and the integral role she played in his own first love. (Part of the Ties That Bind AU series)

Rating: T (47,245 words)

Ties That Bind Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: Adam is forced to consider what is important to him, especially when he may have lost someone that is very important to him. A Bonanza prequel story, set just after Adam returns home from college.

Word Count: 16,231

Rating: T

SUMMARY:  Joe is attacked. At first it seems the motive was robbery, but all too soon it becomes clear that something devastating has happened to the youngest Cartwright son. As the truth comes out, the Cartwright men face a challenge none of them could have conceived; one that calls upon them to look deep within themselves to find a way to save Joe.

RATED M: This story is rated M for adult situations and themes including sexual assault, sexual innuendo, abusive behavior, violence and brutality.  It contains mild adult language.  WARNING: This story may not be appropriate for younger or more sensitive readers.

(72,000 words)

Summary:   The Ophelia Theatre Presents the very first ‘Chippendale’ dancers, featuring Adam and Joe Cartwright; who star in their own private dances later that night.  Written for the 2016 Bonanza Brand 10th Anniversary R-Rated Challenge (aka the ‘Dirty Word’ Challenge)

Rating:  MA  (2,900 words)

THIS STORY IS SEXUALLY EXPLICIT, and intended for mature readers only!  If you are easily offended, please do not continue to the story.

Negotiation Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  For two years Adam had been living in a village of Ute Indians believing his family had died in a wagon train attack. He was settled in his new life until the day he was abducted and left to die in the desert. Now, with help from some old faces, he embarks on a desperate search for his wife, before a heart-breaking decision has to be made.

Rating: T Word Count: 54,802 words

The Many Spirits Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Collection.  The whole family gets into the spirit of the Advent season.

Rating:  G  (2,130 words)

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Collection.  What does it take to restore fading memories?

Rating:  G  (1,850 words)

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Collection.

Rating:  G  (2,020 words)

SUMMARY: 14 year old Joe Cartwright was just trying to do something nice for a friend. Older brother Adam didn’t see it that way. An argument between brothers sets off a series of events that turns into an unstoppable torrent of trouble, which leaves one of Ben Cartwright’s sons with a terrible task to perform and another near death, trapped in the Belly of the Whale.

Rated: PG-13 for mild language and implied adult situations, which do not occur.    WC 76,500

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Collection.

Rating:  G  (780 words)

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Calendar.  Escaping the hubbub of the annual Christmas party, Adam recounts a special tale to Hoss.

Rating:  G  (1,210 words)

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Collection.  Using memories of childhood to persevere home, and what a welcome.

Rating:  G  (2,170 words)

Summary:  This story was written for the 2016 Advent Collection.  If the Christ child was born today, a Christmas before the Cartwrights.

Rating:  G  (1,580 words)