Summary:  Four Adam and Aida stories; sequels to Adam Just and Aida.  The first, Hallucinations, pits Adam against a sinister and clever enemy.  The second is meeting between Adam and Aida’s family.  The third is a Christmas story in which things just don’t go as planned.  The fourth is a story of what happens when some seek to deceive and others make mistakes; Candy also has a romance in that one.

Rating = T  WC = 60,527

Summary:  This is the sequel to Enough.

Rating K+  Word Count: 4952

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

Prequel. After Adam returns to the Ponderosa from college, Joe harbors a lot of jealousy of Adam and it colors all of his interactions with his oldest brother.  The trip home from a cattle drive and a series of unfortunate events will begin healing the rift between the brothers.

WC = 8613  Rating:  T

Summary:  Learning bits and pieces of the past enforces a difficult lesson regarding thinking before one acts, and the need to hear both sides of a story before reacting. With the family poised to fall apart, can harmony be restored? 

Rating: T (16,235 words)

Summary:  Words said have a destruction consequence within the Cartwright family.  One family member refuses to live where respect does not.

Rating:  K+     Word Count:   6,299

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

Summary: A WHI for “Desperate Passage.”  After rescuing Mary Burns from the Paiutes, Joe has to be saved as his attempt to mount an Indian pony and ride to safety goes awry.

Rating: T (Some Violence)  WC: 3396

Summary:  Sexually explicit sections in the story that explains why Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for eight years.  It is Adam centric but the other  Cartwrights have significant parts in the story as well.

Rating MA.  WC = 36118

Adam Just Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:  The boys have been forced to accept heartrending loss.  Is it time to move on?  K+ (15,750 words)

In Absentia Series, links to stories within the series are included.

Summary:   A lost little girl, a restless Little Joe and a hungry puma converge, sparking a story that explores what it means to have family looking out for you–or counting on you to look out for them.

Rated: K+ (word count: 9,300)

Summary:  Adam left the Ponderosa more than ten years ago; and now, a letter has arrived announcing his intent to return. This story is his, as well as his family’s.   

Rating:  T – for minor cursing.   (53,360 words)

Summary:  Missing scenes, The Trap.  A man’s belief that his wife is having an affair sets events into motion that ultimately drive Joe to challenge a lawman to a gunfight; the only way he can see to prove his innocence, of the affair and of two murders.

Rating:  T  (1,440 words) 

After Little Joe’s testimony helps put a noose around the neck of a murderer, his nightmares are nothing compared to the reality that comes to haunt him.

Rated: T (word count: 25,450)

Story by story in this series, Kate becomes more and more involved in Adam’s life first acting as his nurse several times when he is injured as he faces troubles, and then as his love interest.  She has an unhappy past though which Adam has to unravel to win her heart, and then they face heartache as well as joy together.  She is introduced in this first story as Adam faces a significant challenge and his family deals with heartache.

WC = 99,150   Rating — T

SUMMARY:  A time of contemplation as a man reflects on what’s happened in the past, and what good could come from any of it. —  ‘How am I gonna be an optimist about this?’

Rating:  K  (695 words)

Summary:  Missing Scenes and What Happened Next for the second season episode… The Gift.

Rating: T (5,095 words)