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Summary: An old friend’s daughter visits the Ponderosa in an effort to get over her father’s death. She falls in love … but will she stay?
Rated: MA WC 58345
Valentine Nightmares – by Hart4Ben
Summary: A light-hearted look at the Cartwright men struggling with the upcoming Valentine’s Day dance.
Rating: K+ Word Count: 667
Valentine Romance – by BettyHT
Summary: Adam met Meredith when she was a young girl and a friend of Joe’s. When he sees her again, she is a beautiful woman with a sad, dark secret. Love, romance, finding out her secret, and dealing with her past make up the rest of the story.
Rating — teen. Word count — 30,371 words
Valentine’s Card (The) – by KateP
Summary: A little Bonanza story for Valentine’s Day.
Rated: K+ 2,320 words
Summary: This is my entry for the February challenge.
Rated: K+
Summary: This story was written in response to the Ma Hoad’s Valentines Day challenge I hope you all enjoy it.
Rated: MA
Summary: Joe disappears while looking for strays.
Rated: T 16,615 words
Velvet #1 – Velvet Captive – Heather-Chrysalis
Summary: A Saloon girl spends a very special night with Adam Cartwright.
Rated R Wordcount: 6, 055
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Velvet #2 Velveting the Cowboy – Heather Chrysalis
Summary: Adam Cartwright has more erotic encounters with the free-spirited Velvet. A sequel to Velvet Captive, though this story can be read on its own.
Rated R Wordcount: 8, 8864
Vengeance – by Lynnette
Story Summary: When a Jack Devon is out for vengeance for the death of his son, Joe is severely wounded and almost killed. Devon is thrown in jail and all seems to quiet down but it soon becomes clear that more then just Devon’s son Jimmy would like to finish the job.
Rating and Reader alerts: PG
Words: 4,600
Summary: A continuation of the episode Vengeance, taking up the story after barn scene between Adam and Joe, and Red Twilight.
Rating: T 67,830 words
Summary: Ben and Little Joe are targeted in retaliation of being key witnesses in a murder case that lead to a hanging.
Word count: 4,928 rated: M
Vengeance is Mine – by MonicaSJ
Summary: A year after the worst time of his life, Adam Cartwright sees his old nemesis. No one else does.
Rated: K+ WC 28,000
Verdict (The) – by bonanzagirl
Summary: A Saturday night visit to the saloon has terrible consequences for Joe.
Rating: PG Word count: 11000
Summary: A brief stop-over in a small town turns out far longer than the Cartwright brothers thought when they meet Veronica Sadler and find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery in town without law.
Rated: T 25,390 words
Very Series #1 – Adam’s Very Bad Week – by BettyHT
Summary: After the Lotta Crabtree encounter, Little Joe is angry with Adam and events increase that as well as his jealousy. Adam is angry and acts accordingly. Ben and Hoss do their best to calm the waters but it takes a crisis to bring the brothers back together again.
WC = 15,286 Rating = T
Very Series #2 – Very Bad and Then Very Good – by BettyHT
Summary: Adam has a lot of things go wrong for him on the Ponderosa causing him to leave. His travels and accomplishments are fulfilling, but despite all the people he meets, he longs for his home and family. Note: This posting contains two stories.
WC = 62739 rating = T
Very Series #3 – Very Much a Cartwright – by BettyHT
Summary: Adam has a new wife who has much to learn about him, about the Ponderosa, and about being a Cartwright, but it turns out that she’s a great learner as she and Adam face a number of difficulties. Story follows Very Bad and Then Very Good.
Rating = T WC = 18676
Summary: The wealthy Cartwrights are the target of greedy, envious people or businessmen who want to make a profit. Joe gets caught in the middle.
Rating: PG Word Count: 14600
Vicious Circle (The) #1 – by Karen
Summary: A friend of Joe’s is accused of a serious crime. –
Rated: T 62,605 words
Vicious Circle (The) #2 – Shadow of Deception – by Karen
Summary: Strange happenings on the Ponderosa.
Rated: T 30,095 words
Synopsis: Adam and Hoss take Joe to town, to help him turn his luck around.
Rating: G (5,140 words)
Summary: Taking the law into your own hands is never the answer, as the Cartwrights discover.
10,875 words Rated: T
Vine #1 – Cold Fingers Around My Throat – by BettyHT
Summary: A story within a story with a prequel in the main story. Little Joe had a nasty prank played on him when he was ten, and fourteen years later, a similar situation is playing out again. He blamed Adam the first time, but he doesn’t know who to blame the second time.
Rating: T Word count: 3009
Vine #2 – Cold Vine – by BettyHT
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
Vine #3 – Cold Hearts, Warm Hearts – by BettyHT
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
Virginia City Tea Party – by Heike
Summary: In Virginia City ladies know how to celebrate a proper tea party.
WC 2100
Virginia Series #1 – Never Too Late To Say You’re Sorry – by BettyHT
Summary: Adam has been gone from the Ponderosa for ten years. His family knows little of his life but then Ben decides it’s time for at least a visit. There’s a backstory to explain Adam leaving, and flashbacks to explain his personal life, and then the reunion and the results of that as old grievances are aired and new relationships are forged.
Rating = T WC = 34,246
Virginia Series #2 – Like Father, Like Son – by BettyHT
Summary: Adam’s son Garrett finds that he has some experiences much like his father had as a youth, and Adam can help him with those because of it. The story follows the Never Too Late To Say You’re Sorry story, and has the same OCs.
WC =15,282 rating = T
Vision (The) #1 – by BluewindFarm
Summary: Ben’s wife reflects on the past and contemplates a vision of what is soon to come. What happened later for Marie, My Love.
Rating: MA Mature adult theme 1,060 words
Vision (The) #2 – the epilogue – by BluewindFarm
Summary: Her dream is a reality and now they wait for the most important delivery..
Rating: T 3,590 words
Summary: Adam’s Grandfather comes to the Ponderosa for a visit.
Rated: PG 7,950 words
Summary: A stranger repays more than the value of the original good deed.
Word Count: 3900 Rated: T
Visits #1 – A Visit – by BettyHT
Summary: A somewhat metaphysical explanation of what happened to Adam after he left the Ponderosa in a story set in the time period immediately after the death of Hoss. Though the story is about what happened to Adam, Joe is the central character.
Rating: G Word count: 1640
Visits #2 – Another Visit – by BettyHT
Summary: This story follows A Visit and probably makes more sense if you read that one first. Joe receives a second visit but this one follows the tragedy with Alice and after Joe has returned home. Although the material is still serious in nature, the story is in a much lighter tone than the previous one.
Rating: G Word Count: 1477
Visits #3 – Angelic Visit – by BettyHT
Summary: This is the third and final part of the Visit series. In this story, the focus is on Ben who has had suspicions of what has been happening and those are confirmed and a revelation is made that explains why he knew. Joe and Candy are also part of this story.
Rating: G WC: 1,986
Viva la Brothers! – by freyakendra
Summary: After a night of brotherly bonding is complicated by a group of distrustful vaqueros and a jug of pulque, the morning after — two days later — opens Adam’s eyes to a whole new dimension in his relationship with Little Joe.
Word Count: 4351 Rating: T
Summary: Joe grapples with a moral dilemma when he falls in love with another man’s wife. Fist in a series.
Rated: T WC 11,500
Vivian #2 -Another Auld Lang Syne – by pjb
Summary: Just before his wedding, Joe meets up with the woman he once loved—and thought he’d lost forever. This is a sequel to Vivian and refers to characters and events from that story.
Rated: T WC 6500.
Voice (The) – by Imogene
Summary: A voice visits Joe during the night
Rating: G
Words: 1,520
Voices from the Past – by VickiC.
Summary: Ben falls in love with a mirror image of his first wife.
Rating: PG (56,100 words)
Summary: Adam is determined to know why Ben Cartwright always refused his sons’ requests for a family dog. This was written for the 2026 Lorne Green’s Birthday Challenge which required the author to write a Carwright story that included a dog in honor of Lorne’s love of dogs.
Rating: teen word count : 2843