Latest story – For Love and Honor – posted 10/31/2020, see summary below.
A Stitch in Time – by sandspur
Summary: Joe lies dying of injuries 19th century medicine could never cure while Adam, given a cryptic clue from an ancient fraternal feud, searches for help 100+ years in the future..
Rating: T
Ballad of Tahoe Tessie (The) – by sandspur
Summary: Cattle are being eaten, and their picked-clean skeletons are being deposited near the lake, but when the Cartwrights investigate, they find a lot more than they ever bargained for … and the effects will last forever.
Rating: T 20,000 words
For Love and Honor (by sandspur)
Rating: PG
Word Count: 9435
Lilies Series (The) #1 – The Lilies of the Field – by sandspur
Summary: With Ben away, the Cartwright boys face down poachers, a train robbery, a fire that nearly destroys the Ponderosa, a strange new school teacher and a lost dog. But when Ben returns, the biggest problem of all is gossip.
WC 109,300 Rating: T mild language, mature themes, violence
Lilies Series (The) #2 – The Lilies of the Valley – by sandspur
Summary: Adam and Tilly go to Europe for the worst honeymoon ever, landing in the middle of a war to end up missing and presumed dead. Meanwhile, Ben, Adam and Hoss move on with their lives, finding new friends and uncovering strange secrets from the past.
Rating: T. Violence, character death, attempted rape, etc. 109,635 words
Lilies Series (The) #3 – One Scarlet Lily – by sandspur
Summary: Adam and Joe leave the Ponderosa, perhaps for good, in the wake of tragedy and misunderstanding. But the danger only Adam knew about is still with them. Note: the backstory is filled in gradually, through a series of nonsequential flashbacks.
Rating–T. Contains some violence, mild language, a grisly murder scene and a couple of animal death scenes. 105,500 words
Lilies Series (The) #4 – The Strawberry Roan – by sandspur
Summary: a cowboy who returns to the Ponderosa after a long absence discovers a new horse trainer…with an unwelcome training method.
Rating: T mild language . 4316 words.Note: This short story is set in the “Lilies” universe, but it can stand on its own.
Pride and Ponderosa – by sandspur
Summary: What happens when Jane Austen’s ultimate chick-fic, “Pride & Prejudice,” crosses into the burly, macho, he-man world of Bonanza? Confusion? Kidnappings? Crossover characters from other series like “Bronco” and “the Big Valley”? Anything can happen—and anything does!
Rating: T. Totally clean, but one description of an unseemly death. WC 86,200
Summary: What if Ben hadn’t seen Adam pulling Kane through the desert just before abandoning the search? And what if the only thing keeping Adam going…stopped?
Rated: T Word count: 5403
Sound and the Fury (The) – by sandspur
Summary: It’s brother against brother, Cartwright style! Revenge is not a dish best served cold–it’s best served to the sound of the cannon!
Rating: K 1,160 words
Undiscovered Country (The) – by sandspur
Summary: The problems a man keeps secret are the biggest problems of all.
Rating: PG 1,955 words
