Summary: Adam talks Ben into making a trade with Chief Winnemucca. The trade isn’t your average deal, the Chief has a redheaded white girl and he wants a few head of cattle for her. Adam takes full responsibility for the girl and soon finds out he might have gotten himself in deeper than he expected.

Rating: T

Word Count: 21,487
Part of Romancing the Ponderosa Series, links to the stories included within.

Summary: Adam fails in a task that haunts him, but the aftermath is haunting to everyone because no one can understand what happens next. 
PG 2,128

Summary: Adam meets a man by coincidence on several trips, but eventually, it is by design and leads to a new direction in his life.
Rating: T  Word count: 21,713

Summary: In a noble deed, Joe talks Adam into the annual kissing booth not knowing what will result but hoping for the best.
Rating: PG Word count: 5,153

Summary: The story is set five years later than A Fight You Do Not Want, and Adam has to recover from a tragedy and find a way to move his life forward.  He has made some terrible mistakes in doing that and has to figure out how to make his life better. 
Rating T and Word count 28,726
Part of the Fight and Trouble Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  A light drama with quite a bit of humor in the last chapters, the story focus is on Adam but all members of the family as well as Jamie and Candy play significant roles in the telling of this story. There are two OCs too who are necessary to move the story forward. There is a Part 2 which is a short follow-up story.
Rating: T  Word count: 20,302

Summary: Hoss takes a stand with his father, but it takes a serious accident for Ben to fully accept what his son told him.
Rating: PG   Word count: 8,168

Summary: Madeline Cartwright, Ben’s oldest stepdaughter, is Virginia City’s new schoolteacher. She has a school program planned but doesn’t have anyone to build the stage she needs, that is until Kevin Butler steps in. Kevin and Madeline are very close to being enemies, so the sparks are bound to fly!

Rating: T

Word Count: 20,397

Summary: Ben runs into a lady friend from his past and the sparks fly again.

Rating:  T

Word Count: 15,453

Summary:  Seeing injustice, Adam has to act, but his actions and the consequences from them pull his family into that quest too.  In the end, all of them make choices knowing the risks involved.
Rating: T  Word count: 14,366

Summary:  When Little Joe finds a badly injured stranger on the Ponderosa, the Cartwrights’ lives are nearly turned upside down.
Rating: T Word Count: 21,027
Part of the Romancing the Ponderosa Series, links to stories included within.

Summary: Just when Adam thought the first Christmas without his wife couldn’t be bleaker, something magical happens.
Written for day 19 of the 2021 Advent Calendar.
Rating: G
Word Count:  1155

Summary: The Cartwrights face an unseen enemy who is preying upon the young women of Virginia City .. can it possibly be the man Adam suspects?

Rating: T (164,625 words)
Part of the Home is the Sailor Series, links to all stories included within

Summary: After the first grueling days of the Battle of the Wilderness, Joe comes across someone he hadn’t expected to meet during the war. Two brothers caught on opposite sides of the Civil War come face-to-face one night in an intense battle of words, forcing Joe to reconsider exactly where his allegiance lies.
Rating: G
Word Count: 1521
Part of The Allegience Series, links to all stories included within

Summary: It’s Halloween night.  Things happen.  Some things are special.  And some are very special. Share this night with a woman in love and will soon have heart’s desire come true.  Alternative Universe. Written for the 2021 Bonanza Brand Boonanza Challenge.
Rating: T Word Count: 1430