Eleven-year-old Little Joe Cartwright is on a mission. His friend, Sarah Winnemucca, needs his help and so, he sets out to find her in the woods. Of course, since this is Little Joe Cartwright, he's bound to find something else as well - BIG trouble!

The Beauty of Darkness - a sequel to The Friendship, The Guilty, The Tall Stranger, The Crucible, and The Storm. - Jimmy Partridge. Margie Owens. Peter Kane. Laura White. Things were far from routine on the Ponderosa. His life – his family – was a shambles. That indefinable 'thing' that made them 'the' Cartwrights, was lost. Ben Cartwright despaired of ever getting it back.