Bonanza Brand FanFiction Library

Summary: Adam gets involved in two cases for the government, but his new career leads to his father having some very bad luck.  The whole family has to come together to resolve the issues.
Rating – T  Word count – 15,685
Part of the Not Guilty Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  What was Adam thinking as not only Bill Enders challenged his story, but his family, friends, and townspeople all doubted his version of events leading up to Toby being murdered? A companion piece for the episode, it makes sense only if you are familiar with The Ride.
Rating: PG  Word count: 2,105

Summary:  After more than five years since Adam was forced to leave, his family has a lot of questions, but it will take time and some luck to get the answers they want, and then they may find they don’t like all the answers either.
Rating: T  Word Count: 41,355

Part of the Not Guilt Series, links to all stories included within

Summary:  Joe makes a serious mistake and Adam agrees to help him fix things only to find that he puts himself into a greater problem as others make too many mistakes as well.  Adam needs more help than Joe did, but that help is slow in arriving. 
Rating: T   Word count:  35,315
Part of The Not Guilty Series, links to all stories included within

Summary: The final story of the trilogy of stories:  Trial of Jessica Hardy, Buried Alive, and now, The Empty Casket.  The first two stories told of Adam’s disappearance after being taken as a hostage by a woman bank robber, and then his return after months spent drugged in a mental hospital. When Buried Alive ended, Adam had left Carson City following a frosty reunion with his family that had left him feeling that for everyone’s sake, he should have died as Jessica Hardy, AKA Leslie Richter, meant for him to do.  This story picks up in San Francisco, where he has gone, hoping to find something about himself that is worth saving.  He meets someone who just might understand what he’s feeling, and recognize what he’s planning to do. Can this other “man in black” save Adam from himself? 

Rating: K+
Word Count: 28,000
Part of The Trial of Jessica Hardy Series, links to all stories included within

Summary: An incident with his granddaughter brings up childhood memories for Joe.

Rating:  T Word count: 4228

Summary:  An unhappy brother, an old house, and a celebration gone wrong . . . this Prequel is set in 1855 when Adam is 24, Hoss is 18, and Joe is 13.

Rated:  K+ Word Count:  5787

Summary: Little Joe takes out a girl who’s family recently moved from New York. Can he help her to find good in Nevada? And what does a pale moon have to do with anything?

Rating:  K+ Word count:   2116

Summary:  Joe and a friend give each other challenges. Can they also find treasure through it?

Rating:  K+ Word Count: 3168

Summary:  An old friend requests the Cartwrights’ help when vengeance comes calling

Rating:  T Word Count:  4748

Summary: A simple, late summer day quickly turns more complicated than any of the Cartwrights could have imagined potentially changing one Cartwright’s life forever.

Rating: PG Word Count:  3466

Summary:  Fifteen-year-old Little Joe Cartwright is in love and, as usual, it brings a world of trouble.  Can big brother Adam save the day or will he too be drawn in by the Painted Lady and lose not only his way, but maybe his life?  

Rating:  PG Word Count: 29,166

Summary:  When everything you care about is taken from you, you have nothing left to lose.

Rating: M (violence) Word count:  3305

Summary: When the Paiute are seen prowling around the Ponderosa ranch house, Little Joe Cartwright is desperate to help defend his home and family. Only, he’s under orders to stay inside and work on his spelling . . . Disobeying his father’s commands will take him to a place he never, in his wildest dreams, thought he would see.

Rating: K+ Word count: 3664

Summary:  While working on her latest story, an author gets a surprise visit.
Rating:  K+
Word Count:  778