Most Recent: The Route Home – posted on 6/23/2020, see summary below.
Summary: A rare story of how the Cartwrights survived one particularly bad winter.
Rated: MA 5,510 words Not for faint of heart.
Summary: Adam faces a long road home after suffering PTSD when a miner tortured him in the desert. He is afraid he killed Kane, because he cannot remember those last moments, until Joe supplies a ‘trigger.’
Rating: G 8,780 words
Summary: Adam is accused of things he didn’t do. When he finds a strange message left behind in Virginia City, he starts out on a quest to save his identity.
Rating PG. Word count 14,248
As part of Brand’s Preserving Their Legacy, we have chosen to add the following stories written by Monette to the Bonanza Brand Fan Fiction Library.
Synopsis: In the episode Triangle, Adam is engaged to Laura but is so busy building her a house she feels neglected. Will gives her all the attention she needs, and she ends up falling in love with him. We are led to believe in this episode that Adam gives her up willingly, that he never really loved her. “After the Fall” gives this story a different interpretation. For those of you who like to believe he really did love her, as I do, you will discover here what goes on between the scenes of the episode after he falls off the roof of the house, how he feels about the incident leading up to letting her go, and how he recovers both the full strength in his legs after he stands as well as how he recovers from a broken heart.
Rating: G
Words: 12,400
After the Fall #2 – Bloody Peace
Synopsis: We all know Adam left the ranch, never to return. We all probably know a story line or two that would have encouraged him to return for an occasional episode.
Rating: PG
Words: 13,800
Synopsis: Families don’t always appreciate each other, until something traumatic happens.
Rating: G
Words: 11,600
Synopsis: What if Little Joe and Adam really did want the same girl? “High Stakes” involves a poker game, a blind gambler, and a girl who knows how to play both sides of the table – with the Ponderosa and two Cartwright brothers the highest stakes of all.
Rating: G
Word: 13,600
Synopsis: It’s Hop Sing’s birthday, but no one remembers. Maybe it’s because Hoss and Joe have their hands full with a woman who claims to be their sister, Adam’s been accused of murder, and Ben returns home from San Francisco with amnesia and thinking Hop Sing is the owner of the ranch. Well, what better birthday present could he want? Only one, somehow to get everything back the way it’s supposed to be.
Rating: G
Word: 13,600
Synopsis: Virginia City is going through a depression period when a silver ledge is reportedly heading right through the Ponderosa. Ben is adamant about not wanting his land tore up, but Adam believes a compromise is necessary not only for the sake of the town, but for the sake of the family. Adam proves himself right but at what cost?
Rating: G
Words: 11,300
Three Brides for Three Brothers
Synopsis: At age 16 Joe is already smug about the number of girls he dates, and teases his brothers about being too slow to get hitched. Hoss and Adam find the perfect vengeance when a widow woman and her three daughters come looking for Ben’s help with her son’s unjust guilty verdict. Ben is suspicious, but when he eventually catches on not only to what the elderly woman was up to but also why Adam and Hoss have planned such an elaborate party celebration, he sits backs and waits for the fun.
Teen Words: 12,477