Lovella Cartwright. 21 years old. She hasn't been home to the Ponderosa in 7 years. She's been going to high school in the east in New York, and after one year of college she finally has her teaching degree. But all is not as good as it seems, secrets are hidden in her breaking heart, she's not the happy, vibrant girl the Ponderosa once knew, but she can't let her family know that. As much as she's trying to hide it, Candy her best friend and even Joe can see right through her facades and can tell something's wrong. She's too scared to talk to Joe about it, but can Candy open her up and break down her walls before she destroys herself? And can a love Candy felt for Lovella when she was just 14 and can the love Lovella felt for the grown man once too rise to the truth to free them both of the hurt that Lovella is feeling now, and begin a reign of happiness...?

In the aftermath of Laura Dalton running off with Will Cartwright and Adam's accident that left him crippled, he is still trying to recover both physically and emotionally. In an attempt to heal and get rid of the itch to leave the Ponderosa for a while, he buys a six-month homestead claim contract. His piece of land is a beautiful little spot about forty miles north of the Ponderosa and he soon discovers his closest neighbor is a pretty young lady named Felicity Quinn. While helping each other through multiple situations, a close friendship grows between them and they aren't sure if they want to continue to be "just neighbors". This is a standalone Bonanza short story. It takes place around the beginning of season six.

Little Joe Cartwright meets a lady doctor who ends up saving Adam's life.

Shelia Johnson can't wait to marry her fiancé, Little Joe Cartwright. They have many plans for their future together, that is until she gets captured and held hostage by a family of outlaws named the Lassiters. She realizes very quickly that she only has two days left to live, two days without her hazel eyed cowboy and the family who she loves more than anything in the world. Yet she won't go down without a fight and even though she is tied hand and foot, she's determined to decide whether or not she is going to live or to die... This short story is a WHI (what happened instead) for the season seven episode Five Sundowns to Sunup.

On her way home from Virginia City, Gabriella Cartwright gets captured by a trio of gruff looking outlaws. Riding along with them, she soon discovers who they are and it terrifies her. The trio are none other than the three men her fiancé, Candy, told her about and what he told her wasn't pleasant. When they discover who she is, a decision to use her to get three thousand dollars from her stepfather, Ben Cartwright, is made. After spending hours searching for Brie, Candy Canaday finally finds a clue to her whereabouts. Following the trail of hoofprints off the main road, Candy, his future father-in-law, and his four soon to be brothers-in-law rush to find the missing middle daughter of the family. When Joe tells everyone what the sheriff shared with him about a specific gang of outlaws that were said to have come through Virginia City after failing to rob the bank in Carson City, Candy realizes what they're up against. He knows the gang and they just happen to have a grudge against him and they've captured Brie, who would be the easiest way to tear into him. In a swirl of madness that ends up with the gang capturing Candy, the murder that the outlaws have planned isn't the only thing that's threatening the Cartwright's family. As Brie suddenly becomes extremely sick while being held hostage, Candy can only hope that both of them will make it out alive. In this exciting tale filled with outlaws, hostages, love, and a very bad case of delirium, will Candy Canady and Gabriella Cartwright be able to have the happily ever after that they want and deserve? This is the second book of the Cartwright Gals: A Romancing the Ponderosa Spinoff series. If you haven't already, I suggest you read the Romancing the Ponderosa series and Ponderosa Schoolmarm first to better understand this story and its characters.

Madeline Cartwright, Virginia City's school teacher, has a brilliant plan for a school program that her students will perform at the end of the term. But a wrench is thrown into her plans when none of her three stepbrothers or ranch hand Candy Canaday can build the wooden stage she needs so that the program will run smoothly. So even though it's the last thing she wants to do, she accepts Kevin Butler's offer to build it for her. Kevin Butler never expected Ben Cartwright's oldest stepdaughter to accept his offer, especially since they aren't exactly friends and almost always rub each other the wrong way, ending up in a hot, fiery argument. In fact, they've nearly become enemies thanks to their knack for doing that but as time goes on, he begins to see her true colors and he discovers that she's not as mean and hot tempered as she seems. Even though neither of them realizes it, the wooden stage and Kevin's seven-year-old son, Oakley are bringing them together and by the time they finally figure out what they mean to each other, it's nearly too late. Find out if Madeline from Rose, My Love will find finally find love and if Kevin can let himself love again after losing his wife. This is the first book of the Cartwright Gals: A Romancing the Ponderosa Spinoff series. If you haven't already, I suggest you read the Romancing the Ponderosa series first to better understand this story and its characters.

When in town one day getting supplies, Ben runs into an old acquaintance from before he went to sea. He invites her and her three daughters to stay on the Ponderosa until they can get settled elsewhere since her oldest daughter is Virginia City's new schoolteacher. While catching up on the past with this friend, he realizes that it feels like all those years that they were apart never happened and that they just picked up where they left off. Sparks begin to fly again when she agrees to court him. Together they solve multiple problems and in the end become almost like one family instead of two. Read this fourth and final book of the Romancing the Ponderosa series to see the Cartwright family grow even more! (This is not a standalone book and in order to understand the story the other three books must be read first.)

When Hoss saves a little girl from getting trampled by two drunks' horses, he never knew what it would bring him or the rest of his family. After talking the little girl's widowed mother into coming to stay on the Ponderosa, the rest of the family thank him because the little girl and her older brother brighten up the dreary house tremendously. That is until disaster strikes the next day at Adam's house. Disaster that leaves the little girl on the brink of death. There's a large amount of mixed emotions stirring up on the Ponderosa as the only thing that will save the little girl is a God granted miracle and as Hoss slowly begins to fall for the pretty widowed mother of two who is fighting for her daughter's life. Find out what the disaster is and whether or not she pulls through in this third installment of my Romancing the Ponderosa series! This isn't a standalone book. Mrs. Little Joe and The Redhead must be read first in order for Leo to make since.

When Chief Winnemucca of the of the Paiute tribe shows up at the Ponderosa one morning, it causes an uproar of excitement for the Cartwrights! The Chief wants Ben to trade him two beef cattle for the feisty redheaded gal he brought with him. But Ben doesn't want to trade cattle for a person. That is until Adam talks him into going through with the trade, promising to take full responsibility for the girl. Adam learns real fast that he just might have gotten himself in way deeper than he expected, especially since the redhead turns out to be not only a spitfire, but a very beautiful spitfire... (This is book two of Romancing the Ponderosa series and it is NOT a standalone. You must read the first book, Mrs. Little Joe for it to make sense since The Redhead begins three months after Mrs. Little Joe ends.)

When Little Joe finds a young man who's been beaten and whipped on the Ponderosa, he brings him home so that they can help the boy. But the only problem is that it's not really a boy like Little Joe thought. It's really a beautiful young lady named Hannah who wears men's clothing to protect herself from the mean men in the mining camp where she lives. But who beat and whipped her? And why is someone searching for her? Will Little Joe, Ben, Adam, and Hoss be able to protect Hannah from being taken back to her horrible life in the mining camp? Find out in this book, the first of the Romancing the Ponderosa series!!!