Summary: Ben Cartwright has twice known love and loss. Will the third time be the charm?

Rating: T (1,044 words)

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: Prequel stories set in the time shortly after the family has lost Marie and in the pre-Christmas season. The first one is about Adam, and the next two are about Little Joe who is sad and the couple of ways that Adam finds to bring him out of that sorrow including one his father isn’t entirely pleased to see but the other is amazing.

Rating: K+ (2,336 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: When seven-year-old Little Joe gets the wrong end of an idea and twists it out of shape, it’s up to his family to straighten things out. An early prequel story before Adam has left for college.

Word Count: 3041 Rating: K

Summary:  Christmas wishes do come true for the brothers.

Rating:  K  (760 words)

Inspired by the December 1st Pinecone Challenge — “Who am I?  You sure you want to know?”

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

Rating:  G  (1,810 words)

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

Rating:  G  1,390 words

Summary:  While in San Francisco with his father, ten year old Adam gets lost and is cared for by a special person.  Several years later, Adam has the chance to return the favor when he unknowingly saves the man’s life.  

Rated K+   WC 5877

Summary:  This story is a modern day story with Adam as the featured character.  It is a prequel to “Weekend Dad.”

PG-13:  Very mild language and implied sexual situations  (113,407 words)

Weekend Dad Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary: When Joe and Mitch befriend two orphaned boys and try to help them, Ben has no idea where this new friendship will lead his youngest son. It would actually prove to be Ben’s spur-of-the-moment decision that would lead to disaster. All parents have acted in haste and he just prays he has time to set things right again.

Word Count: 60,173 Rating: T

Summary:   When 10 year old Joe Cartwright awakes screaming his pa’s name in the night, his brothers assume the young boy is afraid since their pa is away in Placerville. What they can’t know is that Joe’s nightmare is all too real and their brother’s reaction to it will catapult all four Cartwrights on a journey that will end with both their father and little brother losing their lives – unless Heaven intervenes.

Rating:  K+  (41,980 words)

Summary: At sixteen, Joe was champing at the bit to be counted as a man. Until the day where his choices could have dire consequences for both his brothers.

Word Count: 33,779 Rating: T

Summary:  This is a prequel in which Adam is at odds with Ben and with Hoss because of events that occur and words that are spoken in anger. A master manipulator is at work and needs to be stopped before things get any worse.  

Rating = T  WC = 13,369