Bonanza Legacy

KATHLEEN BERNEY

Ben:  "Today's story will be read by Kathleen."
Adam & Hoss:  Making themselves comfortable in their favorite chairs.
Little Joe:  Sitting with his feet on the table.

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Kathleen Berney
pkmoonshine03@verizon.net

Title:  POW 333
Rated:  PG
Summary:  POW challenge (A Night at the Opera)

Title:  Poltergeist
Rated:  PG 13 for adult language
Summary: A cruel taunt sets off a chain of unsettling events at the Cartwright homestead.

Title:  The Longest Walk
Rated: G
Summary: Adam faces what may be the most terrifying moment of his life.

Title:  Where Angels Fear To Tread
Rated: PG for harsh language
Summary: A certain Cartwright must find within him the wherewithal to face his greatest fear. The life of another may well depend on it.

Title:  Bloodlines
Rated: R for adult language, violence, and abusive (physical, but NOT sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Paris McKenna, an old friend of the Cartwright family, is on her way out to San Francisco, when she suddenly falls ill. She reluctantly accepts Ben’s invitation to come to the Ponderosa to rest, and regain her strength. She also carries the burden of a devastating secret that could rip the close-knit Cartwright Family to shreds. “Bloodlines” is the first story in a series. Fair warning: this story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Cinnamon Rose, part 1
Rated: PG 13 for harsh language and a couple of fights
Summary: Hoss, age 15, falls in love for the first time . . . and yes! The young lady’s feelings are mutual.

Title:  Cinnamon Rose, part 2
Rated: PG 13 for harsh language
Summary: The love between Hoss and Cindy continues to blossom under the watchful, approving eyes of both families, while Cindy’s parents put down roots and settle into community life in Virginia City. The arrival of old friends from Boston, however, threatens to destroy the Taylor family and sunder the bonds of love.

Title:  Bloodlines, part 2
Rated: R for adult language, violence, and abusive (not sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Trouble for the Cartwright family seems to follow on the heels of Paris McKenna’s unexpected arrival. Coincidence? Fair warning: this story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Bloodlines, part 3
Rated: R for adult language, violence, and abusive (not sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: One of the Ponderosa hands turns up dead in a meadow half way between the ranch house and town. Fair warning: this story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Bloodlines, part 4
Rated: R for adult language, violence, and abusive (not sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: While Roy Coffee investigates the murder of one of the Ponderosa hands, Ben, Hoss, and Joe continue their search for the elusive Zachary Hilliard and the men working for him. Fair warning: this story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Martha
Rated: G
Summary: Joe's never met a gal quite like Martha. Question is, will he survive the experience.

Title:  Bloodlines, part 5
Rated:  R for adult language, violence, and abusive (not sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Paris McKenna's secret is revealed. This story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Bloodlines, part 6
Rated:  R for adult language, violence, and abusive (not sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Ben and Paris set out to rescue Stacy. Will they reach her in time? This story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Bloodlines, part 7 and epilogue
Rated:  R for adult language, violence, and abusive (not sexual) situations involving minors. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Conclusion. This story includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  The Wedding, part 1
Rated: PG 13 for language, a wee bit of nudity, implied sex, and lots of innuendo
Summary: Adam Cartwright and his wife, Teresa, come to Virginia City to spend the summer with the family, and so that he might stand up for an old friend as best man in what's shaping up to be "The Wedding Of The Century." Meanwhile, Roy Coffee has his hands full trying to put a couple of bootleggers out of business and stop an elusive thief in his tracks.

Title:  The Wedding, part 2
Rated: PG 13 for language, a wee bit of nudity, implied sex, and lots of innuendo
Summary: The bride-to-be discovers that she's still very much in love with her first love, Apollo, but feels obligated to go through with "The Wedding." Apollo begs Hoss to help him find a way to put an end to the planned festivities. Ben, Adam, and Hoss, meanwhile, put the final touches on their planned bachelor party, and an important wedding gift goes missing.

Title:  The Wedding, part 3
Rated: PG 13 for language, a wee bit of nudity, implied sex, and lots of innuendo
Summary: The bride-to-be discovers that she's still very much in love with her first love, Apollo, but feels obligated to go through with "The Wedding." Apollo begs Hoss to help him find a way to put an end to the planned festivities. Ben, Adam, and Hoss, meanwhile, put the final touches on their planned bachelor party, and an important wedding gift goes missing.

Title:  The Wedding, part 4
Rated: PG 13 for language, a wee bit of nudity, implied sex, and lots of innuendo
Summary: The bride-to-be discovers that she's still very much in love with her first love, Apollo, but feels obligated to go through with "The Wedding." Apollo begs Hoss to help him find a way to put an end to the planned festivities. Ben, Adam, and Hoss, meanwhile, put the final touches on their planned bachelor party, and an important wedding gift goes missing.

Title:  The Wedding, part 5
Rated: PG 13 for language, a wee bit of nudity, implied sex, and lots of innuendo
Summary: The happy couple gets hitched, with plenty of hitches along the way. At the reception, the punch is found to be packing a powerful punch of its own.

Title:  The Wedding, part 6
Rated: PG 13 for language, a wee bit of nudity, implied sex, and lots of innuendo
Summary: The conclusion.

Title:  Sacrificial Lamb, part 1: Exodus
Rated: R for adult language, violence, which includes a reference to (but no graphic descriptions of) rape and murder. May not be suitable for all readers. Discretion advised.
Summary: While Adam and his wife, Teresa, are visiting with his family at the Ponderosa, someone from his (Adam's) past arrives unexpectedly. She is in deep trouble and desperately needs his help. "Sacrificial Lamb" takes place within a month of "The Wedding," and includes the addition of two non-cannon characters.

Title:  Sacrificial Lamb, part 2: Descent Into Hell
Rated: R for adult language, violence, which includes a reference to (but no graphic descriptions of) rape and murder. May not be suitable for all readers. Discretion advised.
Summary: Peggy Dayton van Slyke faces a desperate up hill battle to end the marriage between herself and a husband, who is dangerously, violently insane, and keep custody of their unborn child. The Cartwrights are bound and determined to help Peggy win her fight. Her great aunt, Lil Manfred, and mother, Laura Dayton, however, are equally bound and determined to find Peggy and force her into reconciling with her cruel, abusive husband.

Title:  Sacrificial Lamb, part 3: Deliverance
Rated: R for adult language, violence, which includes a reference to (but no graphic descriptions of) rape and murder. May not be suitable for all readers. Discretion advised.
Summary: Conclusion

Title:  The Lo Mein Affair, part 1: Mistaken Identity
Rated: PG 13 for language, implied sex, lots of innuendo, and a well deserved spanking.
Summary: A rash of strange goings on in Virginia City have the members of the Cartwright family fearing their imaginations have run completely amok. Making already complicate matters worse, Bradley Meredith and the Slade brothers are in town . . . and Hop Sing's relatives are visiting. Action and adventure with a measure of comedy.

Title:  The Lo Mein Affair, part 2: The Game's A Foote
Rated: PG 13 for language, implied sex, lots of innuendo, and a well deserved spanking.
Summary: Myra Danvers presents Ben with an ultimatum: make an honest woman of the school teacher or risk loosing custody of his daughter. Stacy and Joe are bound and determined to get to the bottom of things with the help of a book written by Professor Foote. Action and adventure with a measure of comedy.

Title:  The Lo Mein Affair, part 3: Cartwright & Cartwright, Private Investigators
Rated: PG 13 for language, implied sex, lots of innuendo, and a well deserved spanking.
Summary: Joe and Stacy continue their investigations, bound and determined to get to the bottom of things, despite the consequences and personal risk. Ben, meanwhile, makes the necessary arrangements to marry schoolteacher, Judith Ashcroft.

Title:  The Lo Mein Affair, part 4: Hot Pursuit
Rated: PG 13 for language, implied sex, lots of innuendo, and a well deserved spanking.
Summary: Joe, Hop Sing, and the female members of the Li family search for the missing jade statues, while Stacy pursues a con man and a thief who could easily pass for her father’s identical twin brother. Will they be able to arrive in time to stop the marriage of Ben Cartwright and Judith Ashcroft from taking place?

Title:  The Lo Mein Affair, part 5: Case Closed
Rated: PG 13 for language, implied sex, lots of innuendo, and a well deserved spanking.
Summary: The explosive conclusion.

Title:  Poltergeist II: Benjy’s Story, part 1
Rated: PG 13
Summary: Adam's two children arrive in the company of their maternal grandmother to join their parents for a summer vacation on the Ponderosa. Their arrival sets off a chain of frightening, inexplicable events very similar to incidents that happened many years ago. "Poltergeist II: Benjy's Story" takes place soon after the events that transpired in "Sacrificial Lamb," and includes the addition of several non-cannon characters. Though this story may be considered a sequel to my story "Poltergeist," it can and does stand independently.

Title:  Poltergeist II: Benjy’s Story, part 2
Rated: PG 13
Summary: As the anger Adam and Teresa's two children harbor toward one another grows and festers, the strange events going on in the Cartwrights' house and barn escalate to a new, frightening intensity. Meanwhile, Benjy's new friend seems bound and determined to drive a wedge between him and his family.

Title:  Poltergeist II: Benjy’s Story, part 3
Rated: PG 13
Summary: Benjy manifests the symptoms of an illness that claimed the life of a family who once had their farm where the Cartwright family has since built their house. Doctor Martin suspects the boy's sickness is more psychological in nature, rather than physical. If Adam, Teresa, and the rest of the family can't find and deal with the source of Benjy's problems, they may end up losing him.

Title:  Poltergeist II: Benjy’s Story, part 4
Rated: PG 13
Summary: The Conclusion

Title:  The Guardian
Rated: G
Summary: On his way home from a Christmas shopping trip in Placerville, Joe is thrown from a spooked horse and left stranded at the bottom of a deep ravine in the midst of a severe snowstorm. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines," and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Young Cartwrights In Love: A Story In Three Vignettes
Rated: PG-13 for a bit of innuendo
Summary: The younger Cartwright children are in head over heels. What are Ben's thoughts on the matter? Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines," and includes the addition of a non-canon character.

Title:  Orenna
Rated: G
Summary: When Hoss and Stacy get caught in a dangerous winter storm on their way home from a hunting trip, help comes from a strange old woman who claims to have known the family for a very long time. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines," and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  There But For The Grace Of God, part 1
Rated: PG
Summary: Ben and Stacy befriend a young woman returning home after living with the Chinook for four years. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines" and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  There But For The Grace Of God, part 2
Rated: PG
Summary: The Cartwright family's growing friendship with Rachael Marlowe raises unresolved past issues for Stacy. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines" and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  There But For The Grace Of God, part 3
Rated: PG
Summary: Conclusion. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines" and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Cousin Clarissa Returns, part 1
Rated: PG
Summary: Cousin Clarissa is back for a return visit to the Ponderosa, as the title suggests, just in time for Stacy's graduation. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines" and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Cousin Clarissa Returns, part 2
Rated: PG
Summary: Cousin Clarissa secretly makes the necessary arrangements for Stacy to attend a finishing school in Boston, whether Ben, Hoss, and Joe like the idea or not, even though it may mean dragging the girl kicking and screaming across country. Part of the series begun in "Bloodlines" and includes the addition of a non-cannon character.

Title:  Trial by Fire, part 1
Rated: R for strong language, nudity, and violence, which includes psychological torture. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: My version of WHN after "The Countess." The Cartwrights' home is destroyed by fire. In the aftermath, Stacy is left badly injured and Joe missing. To give credit where it's due, when I posted "The Guardian" on another site, a reader by the name of Susie DiCarlo said in her feedback that she felt that story ended too soon after Joe's rescue and expressed a desire to see more of the comfort in the wake of the hurt. Her words were the seed of inspiration that finally germinated into "Trial By Fire."

Title:  Trial by Fire, part 2
Rated: R for strong language, nudity, and violence, which includes psychological torture. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Roy Coffee investigates the fire that has destroyed the Cartwrights' home, and tries to determine whether Joe Cartwright might still be alive, though missing . . . of if he perished in the fire as the evidence seems to suggest. Stacy, meanwhile, faces surgery in which her chances of survival stand at fifty-fifty.

Title:  Trial by Fire, part 3
Rated: R for strong language, nudity, and violence, which includes psychological torture. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: The only clue Ben and Hoss have regarding Joe's whereabouts is an address in Carson City. What they find there shocks both men to the very core of their beings.

Title:  Trial by Fire, part 4
Rated: R for strong language, nudity, and violence, which includes psychological torture. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Lady Chadwick's precarious grip on sanity unravels and deteriorates at an alarming rate. Joe struggles not only to survive his ongoing ordeal, but to preserve his own sanity as well. Meanwhile, Stacy's physical condition deteriorates, and she faces the very real possibility of losing her leg.

Title:  Trial by Fire, part 5
Rated: R for strong language, nudity, and violence, which includes psychological torture. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Ben, Hoss, and Candy continue their search. Meanwhile, Joe makes a desperate bid for freedom.

Title:  Trial by Fire, part 6
Rated: R for strong language, nudity, and violence, which includes psychological torture. May not be suitable for all readers.
Summary: Joe begins the long, upward climb towards healing, not only physically, but mentally and emotionally, as well. He has the love and support of his family. Will he also be able to find the necessary strength and courage within himself to stand against the inner demons left in the wake of his ordeal?




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