Years ago I posted a story called Let's Kill All the Lawyers. This is a substantial rewrite, with a more optimistic title.

Kathryn is an orphan. Her only family is a grey wolf named Raphael and a paint stallion named Vaquero. With her fiery red hair and a bow in a world of guns Kathryn just wants to find a home and a family to belong to. Arriving at the Barkley Ranch, she just might have found them. But has she truly? Will the Barkley's accept her? Or are her troubles just beginning?

During those tumultuous first weeks at the ranch (after "Palms of Glory" and before "Forty Rifles"), Heath has difficulty fitting in. After he breaks Nick's right arm, Heath must take care of his brother-and learn what it means to be a brother. In exchange, Heath teaches the family how to "gentle" a horse—and each other. Looking forward to reviews-this is my first submission.

Inspired somewhat by Romeo and Juliet. Upon an accidental meeting, Nick develops a crush on and later falls in love with an Italian woman who recently arrived in the United States with her family & settled in Stockton. Everything seems to go well until society customs kick in and an intolerant relative arrives! Stay tuned for more. Please, read & review!

Synopsis: A few years back, I took up a challenge from The Writing Desk: Based on the strength of the bond between Nick and Heath; during a heated argument Nick uses the phrase "your kind". Realizing his mistake, can he fix it? Timeframe note, this story references events in Forty Rifles and Boots with My Father's Name, and is set shortly thereafter.

For Silas, who knew what he was doing.

Three years later, the family gathers for the wedding of Hannah Barkley and James David Autonberry.

Synopsis: Written to explain Jarrod's actions in the episode Night of the Wolf.

The family comes together two years later for birthdays and graduations. The year that changed the Barkley family forever and what has happened since.

Nick Barkley, a widower of ten years is raising his 15-year-old son, Chip. Jarrod has a son of the same age and the boys are inseparable. The brothers have their hands full of antics. Nick finds new love but advice to his son and circumstances cause grief for Nick. Jarrod doggedly fights for Nick in the courts and the home. It is a year that changes the Barkley family forever.

Summary: A rewrite for Forty Rifles. This story originally started out with the intent to address a few missing scenes. But then my muse detoured, insisting that this is what should have happened.

A follow up to the episode Boots with My Father's Name.

Someone is delivering presents in the middle of the night.

Heath-centric one-shot that wouldn't leave me alone.

Jarrod has the flu in San Francisco and can't come home to Stockton for Christmas, so Christmas comes to him. Kind of a prequel to "Twelve Days, Twelve Gifts."

This is Heath and Sharon's story, about how they rekindled their love for each other. The story opens in Spring of 1883 and is a follow-up to "The Glitter & The Gold", "Mile High Mayhem" and "Sonoran Autumn".

Laura Hayden returns to Stockton after visiting Europe, with a fiancé from a wealthy New York family and his sister just a year older than Laura. A sister Jarrod finds attractive – uncomfortably, because she is half his age.

Sometimes you don't get the dream you want.

Nick and Heath head to Carson City after receiving some shocking news. Rating and Genre always subject to change

What happened to Maybelle Williams after she surrendered? And where is Billy Joe Gaines?

Heath is still learning how to be part of a family; it's a good thing he has a big brother there to help him. For Whumptober 2023 #10 "Can't you see that you're lost without me?" Stranded

Nora's sister Gabby comes to the Barkley ranch. Will she and Heath find their way to each other, or will her independent spirit get in the way? And who is the mysterious stranger really after? I do not own rights to these characters other than my original ones that I added to the story.

An expanded ending to Joshua Watson.

In 1936, Heath hears the echo of his own words to Brahma more than fifty years earlier.

A bit more about "Hazard." After the Barkley men leave Coreyville and head home, Heath still has to face Gil Anders.