Summary:  Plans aren’t going exactly as Ben expected, and with family and friends not as close as he wanted, life doesn’t look quite so happy.
Rating:  G  2,490 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  A Christmas continuation of The Art Universe
Rating:  G  3,410 words
Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary:  A benefactor arranges for the modernization of the Ponderosa.
Rating:  G  1,625 words

Written for the 2024 Bonanza Brand Advent Calendar

Summary: Adam time travels to the 21st Century to visit his girlfriend. He discovers that she has been abducted by the Abominable Snowman and sets out to rescue her. A series of other fantasy elements and creatures appear in this story.

Rated T       Wordcount: 35, 488

Summary: Three men, imprisoned in the Virginia City Jail, have been charged with committing murder and other brutal acts of cruelty. According to the scuttlebutt, the attorney representing them is determined to see his clients acquitted, and will stop at nothing to make it so.  Gossip, lurid speculation, and rumor stoke the fear, anger and complete bewilderment of Virginia City’s citizens. leading to the unthinkable, catching Ben, Adam, and Hoss up in the midst of the turmoil.  Sequel to Mark of Kane.
T
Word Count: 39,168

Early one morning, Ben finds a baby left at the kitchen door of the Cartwrights’ home. In Sacramento, meanwhile, Adam and his family receive devastating news.
MA/R  For language, violence, and graphic descriptions of physical abuse of a minor
WC  91,159
Bloodlines Series

Summary: This is a sequel to A Shadow Calling with the same OCs. A tragic experience from a decade earlier has consequences for the Cartwright family and triggers memories and fears until the threat is faced. It is a story within a story, and both tales are told.
T  12,921

Summary: When Hoss needs a romantic poem, he and Joe search Adam’s room where they find something wondrous that truly brings magic to Christmas.
Rating:  G
Words: 4,806
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary:  Jamie tries to learn more about his oldest new brother, but gets something unexpected in the end!:
Rating:  G
Words:  1,800
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary:  Christmastime on the Ponderosa with a young Cartwright family.
Rating:  G
Words:  8,620
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: Adam tells no ordinary bedtime story on Christmas Eve
Rating:  G
Words:  2,380
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: It’s suddenly Christmas, and Adam has to come up with an alternative plan. The solution is quite a surprise, but one enjoyed by the whole family.
Rating:  G
Words:  2,785
Part of the Art-Universe
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary:  Roy Coffee helps not only Ben in his grief.
Rating:  G
Words:  2.500
Written for the Bonanza Brand 2023 Advent Calendar

Summary: This is the third and last installment in this series. Ben does his best to make amends for what went wrong, but Joe has a plan too. Only time will tell which will be more effective.
T   7,071

Summary: The third story in the Vine series answers the last question of who sent the vine, but there is also an examination of Marie’s background to explain the motivation for that act. The story may not make sense in every part unless you have read the first two stories in the series.
Rating: T  Word count: 5,865

Summary: Follows Cold Fingers Around My Throat and answers some of the questions left unanswered at the end of that scary story and moves the story along a bit further as the family fights evil.
Rating: T Word count: 3,277

Summary: One summer solstice night, Adam Cartwright time travels with the aid of a fairy ring to the year 1962. He meets an eleven-year-old girl and takes her to Dairy Queen on his motorcycle.

Rated G   Wordcount: 3,707

Summary: After suffering a tragic loss Ben learns true friends are really family.

Rating: K+ Word Count: 822

Summary: Adam and Joe are having nightmares about Hoss and don’t know what they mean. Too late, one brother understands the message that was sent. It’s a WHI for the end of the series.
Rating: T  Word count: 6,705

Summary: Hop Sing plays the pivotal role in this story about bringing a family member back where he belongs despite his resistance.
Rating: PG   Word count: 1,143

Summary: This is a sequel to Painful Truth with the same OCs. It is about sharing family stories and memories to pull members closer together by having a shared past.
PG    3,152

Summary: The Ponderosa is in crisis and the family asks Adam to come home to help, but that sets in motion a plot that leads to tragedy and loss and surprises too with the two drifters who showed up on the ranch. 
22,010  T

Summary: A strange, unusual, and perhaps a bit weird out-of-this-world tale featuring Adam and explaining some Bonanza events but doing so with a supernatural twist.
PG  18,319

Summary: A spoof. All is not as it seems in this version of the story.
PG  1,808

Summary: A sequel to Mis-Everything.  What appears to be a juicy scandal has the gossips joyful, but it’s not what they think.  The real story is far more interesting.  That romance works out far better than Joe’s tragic one that brings Adam full circle in facing a demon from his past. 
PG  16,643

Summary: Adam has trouble finding success on his terms and returns home. His family worries about him because of his strange responses to situations. There’s a lot they don’t know and there are surprises for them and Adam.  
PG  12,968

Summary: Adam works with Roy against a notorious outlaw gang, but the whole family gets involved in the drama.  Water, the lack of it, and a water trough are all part of the story.   
Rating: T  Word count: 5,994

Summary: Respecting the wishes of a hero who wished his actions to remain unknown except to his community, a newspaperman writes the story of those actions to be included in the man’s eulogy when it should become necessary.   
Rating: PG  Word count: 2,360