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• Adam and Nicoletta by Nyx773

  Fandoms: Bonanza (TV 1959)  

  • Mature
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • F/M
  • Work in Progress

  15 Apr 2024

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Adam Cartwright/Original Female Character(s)
  • Adam Cartwright
  • Original Characters
  • The Great Chicago Fire of 1871
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
  • Self-Medication
  • Emotional Baggage
  • Implied/Referenced Sex
  • Slow Romance
  • Women's Rights
  • Victorian Attitudes
  • Post-Civil War
  • Non-Vanilla
  • Historical Figures
  • Historical Dress
  • Chicago (City)
  • Alternate Reality

  Summary

  NOTICE:
  The publishing of new chapters for this story is indefinitely ON HOLD while the existing chapters are being re-written. Please see my profile/bio for more information.

  Summary:
  In 1872, Adam Cartwright lives in Chicago, where a brothel madam plays matchmaker for him with an unconventional, yet respectable lady. Both are complicated people with troubled souls who are terrified of heartbreak. Their courtship starts out very slowly before it ignites.

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  16,932

  Chapters:

  6/?

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  7

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