Books with author Adam Carter

4 stories set on the quarantined dinosaur world of Ceres:Excavating a Dinosaur World: Recently divorced and fighting a custody battle, Sara Garrel accepts an assignment to protect an archaeological expedition to the dinosaur world. Her charges are a stuffy professor, a spoiled rich gentleman and a flirtatious young student. But Garrel will put up with anything if it means earning enough money to win back her daughter.Dinosaur Fall-Girl: When Professor Marigold Harper illegally enters Ceres in her search for the cure for cancer, a military unit is dispatched to bring her back. Separated from her unit, and with her escape shuttle wrecked by curious dinosaurs, Corporal Autumn is forced to drag the professor miles across hostile territory.Dinosaur Prison World: Ashley Honeywood becomes the greatest dinosaur pit-fighter the Ceres penal colony has ever known. When her lover Garret Seward, the owner of the only decent eatery in the bayou, vanishes in a dinosaur attack, Honeywood heads out to find him.The Dinosaur That Wasn’t: A prison is seized by the inmates and Aubrey Whitsmith and Dexter Valentine find themselves in charge. When three soldiers arrive, they realise their dominancy might be about to collapse. But the soldiers are more interested with what’s pursuing them through the swamp. For there is something out there, stalking them all.

For Ashley Honeywood, exile to a prison world means having to prove herself a survivor. Becoming the prison’s greatest pit-fighter affords her more respect than she ever had as a free woman; and that she’s forced to fight dinosaurs only adds to the thrill of combat. When her lover Garret Seward, the owner of the only decent eatery in the bayou, vanishes in a dinosaur attack, Honeywood heads out to find him. Intending to go alone, she is wary of the team she’s made to lead. There’s no one in the prison she trusts, for her rivals know the swamp is the perfect place for Honeywood to disappear. One eye on her team, the other on the dinosaur-infested swampland, Honeywood discovers she must travel farther than any of the prisoners have ever ventured before. However, the longer she follows the trail of the damned, the deeper she comes to realise there’s more to Seward’s disappearance than any of them could ever have realised.

A terrible snowstorm sees the small rural village of Barrowville cut off from the rest of the country. When local children discover a corpse hidden within the body of a snowman it becomes clear the storm has trapped a murderer in the village. Forced to deal with a crime she has never before faced, Detective Felicity Hart calls in the services of big city detective John Stoker, now living out his retirement in the small community. Using his experience dealing with the worst of society, Stoker aids Hart in her investigation. With his own daughter murdered years earlier, Stoker fears Hart will become yet another young woman to die due to his own inability to look after the people he loves.Bonus story: Murder While You Wait. When a colleague goes missing, fellow detectives Ruth Hayden and Richard Tremens abandon their workload to investigate. The only clue seems to be the missing detective’s infidelity to his wife. The investigation takes a strange turn when the detectives uncover several oddities which need connecting: a run-down café, an obsession with cleaning products and a woman with a twisted sense of right and wrong.Two detective stories to show Christmas is the perfect time for murder.

Years ago, a heroic knight fell in love with a beautiful mermaid and a child was conceived.Now, as her mother is murdered, eighteen-year-old Misako must flee her ocean home and venture into the land of the humans. Yet war has been raging between faeries and humans for generations and each side labels the hybrid girl a monster.Emotionally unstable and without any guidance, she roams the land in search of her fabled father. Innocent and naïve, Misako quickly falls foul of human greed and immorality, while always striving to find the goodness in human hearts.Her search takes her from fishermen to pirates, from mountains to forests. Every experience makes her stronger, every loss makes her weaker. She discovers the true horror of war and suffers the extreme hardships of being different. Ever searching for a place to belong, Misako refuses to give up hope of finding her father – the man who may not be quite the hero she needs.A coming-of-age story about the love, fury and sadness of a child born of two races, but belonging to neither.

The Second Battalion of Torbalia. Knights, thieves, barons, mercenaries … the Second Battalion is formed of unlikely allies. In each Knights of Torbalia game book, you take on the role of a different soldier. Can you master them all?While your battalion evacuates a town during an attack of tree-like yggdras, you discover a young girl has been kidnapped. Infiltrating the enemy camp, you must rescue the girl before the invasion begins.Taking the role of Hydere, you must determine your own course of the story, deciding who to trust, who to fight and above all how to survive.A game book of 60 paragraphs.

Assassin, spy, smuggler; Matthew Redfern has been many things for his government. When someone is needed to sneak into the quarantined dinosaur world to gather eggs for study, Redfern and his partner are sent in. But taking a dinosaur egg from its mother is something Redfern soon discovers is far more difficult than anything he has attempted before.Lost and cut off from his partner, Redfern discovers a primitive, yet obnoxiously sassy girl named Cara. Enduring her coming of age trial, Cara watches Redfern perform magical feats with his superior technology and takes him back to her village as a deity. But Redfern’s reception is far from warm and as he begins to discover anachronisms within the village he soon realises that sometimes people are only as primitive as they want to seem. Eager to return to his shuttle before his partner strands him forever on the forbidden world, Redfern finds himself constantly delayed by his concern for Cara’s welfare. A no-nonsense assassin, Redfern cannot understand his constant frustration around the girl, especially since all they do together is argue. Married to his job and dead to emotion, Redfern fights the possibility that he might be falling in love and that the primitive dinosaur world might be the perfect place for his own coming of age trial.The latest in a series of stand-alone stories set on the quarantined dinosaur world Ceres.

Two generations ago, settlers on a quarantined dinosaur world founded the town of Justice. Struggling to survive, their descendants have learned to domesticate the herbivores, while marshals patrol the town’s borders to keep the carnivores at bay.Owner of a prococeratops ranch, Susan Fallon has a history of taking on lost causes. When a young woman mysteriously appears on the outskirts of Justice, wounded by a pack of nuthetes, Fallon does not think twice about tending to her injuries. In doing so she comes into conflict with Marshal Skyre. A cruel and sadistic woman, Skyre cares only for protecting the town and intends to execute the young woman for trespass. When the stranger disappears from Justice to return to the nuthetes pack, Skyre sets out after her; and Fallon sets out after Skyre.There ensues a race to save the young woman from the dinosaurs, the marshal and herself. Yet the woman has a secret – one which could change the fate of Justice forever.

Lovers and adventurers Iris Arowana and Gordon Hawthorn are hiding from their pasts. In their stolen sword-ship, Jupiter’s Glory, they travel from world to world in the Jupiter system, taking survival one day at a time.Having rescued some joyriding youths from a gang of space pirates, Arowana and Hawthorn are invited to dinner in gratitude. Landing on the small moon Themisto, they are confronted by the priests who call the moon their home. So tiny is their world, the entire moon is of one religion. Cut off from the rest of the solar system, the men of Themisto have become insane zealots, while the women keep society running.When the Glory’s doctor, Wraith, is arrested for spying, Arowana and Hawthorn are told the only way they can save him from crucifixion is to deal with the pirate menace once and for all.But there are other souls who need saving, not the least of which is young Bethany Hart, kidnapped by the pirates and brutalised through two years of torment and abuse. Their only hope is to deal with the pirates in time, before the Church of Themisto surrenders their friend to divine judgement.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.Everyone is excited when the circus comes to Gizzleton. Deputy Rake asks Doc Tinkly to accompany him, hoping this could be his opportunity to declare his love to her. Tinkly, however, is more interested in setting Rake up with a nice girl that works in the big top. Meanwhile Bear’s own potential love, saloon owner Donna Belle, is having a difficult time convincing Bear to take the night off work so they can enjoy the experience together.As soon as the circus owner, Shana Cirque, sees a talking bear in a sheriff’s outfit she is determined to have him in her show and sets upon a fiendish quest to kidnap him.But there’s a stranger in town. Leo Manefire has made it his mission to kill Bear for crimes against his people and uses the circus as his means of sneaking into Grizzleton. A talking bipedal lion, Manefire holds the secrets to Bear’s past which have eluded him for so long.Rake, Tinkly, Belle and Bear … the whole of Grizzleton is forced to band together to foil the plans of the diabolical circus, prevent Manefire’s assassination attempt and uncover the answers to Bear’s past. If this blurb carries on much longer, though, you’ll find out the ending.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise.On Christmas Eve, Doc Tinkly finds a wounded reindeer named Blitzen and fears this may ruin the big day. Bear and his deputies try to convince Tinkly that Blitzen is just a has-been actor, but Tinkly’s belief in Santa is just too strong.While they’re doing that, a polar bear named Percival appears in a Santa costume and no one knows what to think any more. Violent and voracious, Percival is surprised to find Bear in the town and his focus shifts from trying to eat Blitzen to trying to kill Bear. For Percival and Bear share a past the sheriff can’t remember, and are fighting over the woman back home who has won Bear’s heart.Six books in and we finally start to learn stuff about why Bear is a bear and why there are talking animals no one ever notices. Took long enough.

A dangerous bioweapon is being developed in a secret military base on Ceres, the dinosaur world. You are selected as the agent to infiltrate the facility and steal the weapon before it can be used.Getting to the facility won’t be easy, because first you have to navigate your way through the dinosaur-infested forest outside. Along the way you’ll encounter military outposts, deadly traps and dinosaurs hunting alone or in packs.It’s up to you to find the safest path, or to plough through the most dangerous. Failure will result in the completion of the bioweapon; millions of lives hang on the choices you make as you face the fearsome Forest of Fiends.A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.

The Second Battalion of Torbalia. Knights, thieves, barons, mercenaries … the Second Battalion is formed of unlikely allies. In each Knights of Torbalia game book, you take on the role of a different soldier. Can you master them all?Collected here are the first 5 Knights of Torbalia game books. Complete in and of themselves, these stories will set you against demon trees, thieves and horrific monsters from your past.You must determine your own course through the stories, deciding who to trust, who to fight and above all how to survive.