Category: Hurt/Comfort
Trapped (by Rona)
Summary: Hunting for strays ought to be easy. Ben fears the worst when disaster strikes Joe and Adam.
Rated: T (5,575 words)
Love… Always Love (by DebbieB)
Summary: Love knows no barriers, that’s what my grandmother once told me. I must have been feeling her presence on the day I wrote this short, short story.
Rated: G Tissue alert (1,450 words)
Guilty (by Rona)
Summary: Accused of a crime he didn’t commit, Joe finds himself facing the ultimate punishment while his brothers race against time to bring the witness who can clear Joe’s name.
Rated: T (9,620 words)
Guilty Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
A Fresh Start (by Rona)
Summary: Joe is sought out by a woman who wants him to help her husband. But when Joe discovers who the woman’s husband is, he wants nothing to do with him. Will he take no for an answer?
Rated: K+ (10,975)
Only Skin Deep Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Chains and Slavery (by Rona)
Summary: Worried when one of his friends goes missing, Joe sets out to look for him. But he is not prepared for what he discovers.
Rated: T (10,100 words)
Areas of Expertise (by Rona)
Summary: A terrible accident teaches the Cartwrights that each of them have their own areas of expertise.
Rated: K+ (5,635 words)
Anything for Family (by Lynnette Smith)
Summary: When Richard Darvey is out for revenge on Ben Cartwright for the death of his son, Joe must decide how much he is willing to give to protect his father. When Darvey fails to claim his revenge on the Cartwrights it becomes quite clear that someone other then Darvey will stop at nothing to see both Ben and Joe dead.
Rating and Reader Alerts: PG
Words: 4,480
Faith to Believe (by Rona)
Summary: The sequel to Believe in Me. Will the Cartwrights find Joe? Where did he go when he left the Ponderosa?
Rated: T (7,855 words)
Believe in Me Series, links to all the stories within the series included.
Always My Son Series – #2 – The Color of Love (by Wrangler)
Summary: This is a sequel to Always My Son
Rated: K+ WC 18,000
Always My Son Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Always My Son – #1 (by Wrangler)
Summary: A stranger arrives in town with the intent of ripping the family apart by claiming he’s Little Joe’s real father.
Rating T, WC 55,000
The Protector (by EPM)
Summary: A spat between brothers leads to dire consequences for a third when he take on a task one of them should have done, and encounters bank robbers while in town.
Rating T (12,000 words)
Star Of The Sea (by Claire)
Summary: Adam and Joe embark upon a perilous sea voyage
Rated: T (17,200 words)
Flames (by Rona)
Summary: A gang of rustlers is plaguing the Virginia City area.
Rated: T (10,205 words)
That Silver-Haired Daddy of Mine (by Debbie B)
Summary: Ben’s near death experience is cause for Joe to want to make atonement for his past misdemeanors.
Rated G WC 12,600
That Silver-Haired Daddy Series, links to stories within the series are included.
Becoming A Man (by Christy)
Summary: When the Cartwright brothers have to face their worst nightmare, Little Joe decides to take matters in to his own hands. Will he survive to show his family he really is the man his father raised?
Rating G (10,520 words)