Category: Alternate Universe
Inclusion of non-canon family members (wives, siblings, etc.)
Not Guilty: Part Two, Justice Delayed (by BettyHT)
Summary: After more than five years since Adam was forced to leave, his family has a lot of questions, but it will take time and some luck to get the answers they want, and then they may find they don’t like all the answers either.
Rating: T Word Count: 41,355
Part of the Not Guilt Series, links to all stories included within
Lost and Found (by Questfan)
Summary: An incident with his granddaughter brings up childhood memories for Joe.
Rating: T Word count: 4228
Not Forgotten part 2 Captive Hearts (by BettyHT)
Summary: AU continuation in which Adam has found his dream but lost some of it too. He finds his way back west to rebuild both his dream and his connection to his past.
Rating T Word Count = 25,444
Part of the Not Forgotten Series, links to all stories included within
Not Forgotten (by BettyHT)
Summary: A story for those who are willing to accept an Alternate Universe version of some of the Bonanza story. In this case, it is the story of Ben and Marie and the story of Adam in the prequel years with Adam’s backstory drastically altered.
Rating: PG Word count: 15,477
Part of the Not Forgotten series, links to all stories included within
Always One More (by BettyHT)
Summary: A What Happened Instead for The Decision. What if the doctor wasn’t able to do the surgery? Ben recalls conversations he has had with Hoss and the best of his middle son’s attributes.
Rating: PG Word count: 1243
A Monetary Affair (by BettyHT)
Summary: Juliette will be off her game in this story due to her condition, and yet things will work out far better than she wants them to work out. You’ll have to read it to understand that. It’s a much more light-hearted story than the previous two, and only the weather is the villain, and well, lady luck plays a role too.
Rating: T Word count: 8676
The Affair Series, links to all stories included within.
A Devious Affair (by BettyHT)
Summary: A sequel to A Twisted Affair, this story shows how Adam faces a complex plot against him that gets more dangerous as each step fails to achieve its objective.
Rating: T Word count: 12,184
The Affair Series, links to all stories included within.
You Can Always Check In (by BettyHT)
Summary: in a hotel in a small town in California, Adam has an unsettling experience where a woman years earlier suffered a great tragedy.
Rating: T Word count: 1485
Mud in Your Eye (by BettyHT)
Summary: On a trip via muddy roads, Adam gets to know a feisty young woman, and their verbal jousting begins but doesn’t stop there. However there are numerous twists and turns in this story with the rest of the family getting involved too, some in a good way, and some not so good.
Rating: T Word Count: 20,439
Wanderlust and Consequences (by BettyHT)
Summary: A NaNoWriMo entry, this story begins when Ben and Adam traveled west and built the Ponderosa and Hoss and Joe joined the family and Inger and Marie are there as well. Then as an adult, Adam traveled to help Hop Sing on a quest, and he finds adventure and love before returning. There is a surprise too in the last chapters that ties the story back to the prequel beginning of the story.
Rating: T Word Count: 102,898
An Island (by BettyHT)
Summary: This is number twelve in the Traci series. A question Adam and Traci have to face is having lost one child, there is the possibility of losing another as their son begins to assert some independence. They must tread a fine line between responsible parenting and smothering, and don’t do that very well at first.
Rating: PG Word count: 7,923
The Traci Series, links to all stories included within.
Changes In Plans (by BettyHT)
Summary: It seems that not one plan that Adam has seems to go the way he intends until he learns to accept that sometimes you follow plans and sometimes random events take you places you never thought you would go.
Rating: T
Word Count: 28,513
Circles (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam and Anne have clues about her long lost brothers, trouble with a counterfeiting ring Adam is investigating in his new job for the Treasury Department, and a threat to kill one of the Cartwrights, and all of those are tied together.
Rating: T WC = 11,299
Ghost at Devil’s Gate (by BettyHT)
Summary: Adam is recruited to do some dangerous work, but isn’t briefed fully on what the dangers are. Predictably, he gets in more trouble than he could have imagined, but the help he expected doesn’t come. The opposite is true. When he can, he sets out on a quest to find out why.
Rating: T
Word count: 15,798
Dear Friends and Christmas Gifts (by BettyHT)
Summary: The last story in this series starts with some informative letters between Adam’s wife and Joe’s wife but progresses into a Christmas visit in which important changes occur for all the brothers.
Rating: T WC: 18,845













