Prequel set in Adam’s college years in Boston. A formal ball, a friendly social, a red dress, a flamingo, and the sea, the sea! The beginning of Adam’s complicated love life, and, somewhere beyond the sea, someone’s first tentative steps into becoming The Queen. Can be read by itself, yet it is a part of the “Art” series, and best read after “The Art of Setting Priorities”.

12,750 words, rated K

The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Amelia writes a letter to her departed brother informing him on the on goings of the Ponderosa including the scams and trouble Little Joe and Hoss had gotten themselves into.  

Rated: K+ (1,210 words)

Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Christmas on the Ponderosa is, more or less, always the same. Yet this year, there’s a certain moment of unpredictability: there’s a visitor staying over the holidays who could jeopardise it all…or make it extra special. And maybe she even knows a better present for Adam than yet another book….

3,200 words, rated K

The Art-Universe series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  In the aftermath of Ben’s death, Joe finds comfort from an unexpected source.  

Rated: K+ (2,040 words)

Summary: This story looks at Joe’s early life based on the events told in The Wheels of Fate and how it was for him growing up outside of the Ponderosa’s protective wing. Alone as a boy Joe deals with rejection, prejudice, and loneliness.  

Rated:  T (12, 230 words)

The Wheels of Fate Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  After a accident leaves eight year old Amelia with amnesia has a great impact on her family especially for Joe and Adam.  

Rated: K+  (6,615 words)

Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

What has happened that has changed Adam so much?
A story about the ravages of life and the endurance of love with references to ‘Triangle’ and ‘Forever.’

9,500 words, rated T

Summary:  Little Joe is given an assignment to write about who his hero is. And surprises everyone when he reveals who he wrote about  

Rated: K+ (2,355 words)

Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Hoss, his pa and brothers sit by the bedside of Hoss’ wife, Abigail, praying she recovers from a bank robber’s bullet. As they wait, they reminisce. 

Rating:  T  (15,800 words)

Summary: Romance as well as sadness beckons for Joe, while Adam is reunited with old friends and takes on a new personna in order to protect the President.

Rated: K (281,065 words)

Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary:  Ages: Amelia 1; Little Joe 7; Hoss 13; Adam 19  Description: Little Joe becomes jealous when Ben starts to pay more attention to little sister Amelia prompting Joe to think that Amelia is Pa’s favorite. Joe’s P.O.V 

Rating K (3,900 words)

Amelia Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Ben loses the Ponderosa which is purchased by some unknown benefactor. Hoss and Joe both fall in love but only one of them ends up at the altar, and Adam is sent to the Kuril Islands to locate a missing ship.

Rated: K+ (217,930 words)

Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Joseph Cartwright suffers what he considers a fate worse than death when an accident during a stampede causes him to face time in a wheelchair and Adam’s hopes of marriage are dashed when he is sent on an assignment to Alaska.

Rated: K+ (210,950 words)

Captain Cartwright Series, links to all the stories within the series included.

Summary: Ben’s thoughts as one of his sons lies in an Army hospital.

Rated: K+ (1,515 words)

The Long Road Home series, links to other stories within the series are included.

Summary:  After years of marriage Tara stands next to Adam’s grave thinking.

Rating:  K  (750 words)

Long Road Back Series, links to all the stories within the series included.