Books with author Tina Adams- Carter

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?A lady of Torbalian nobility requests you escort her caravan safely into the city. Confronting brigands, wild animals and the dangers of land, you discover your real challenge shall be upon your return to Torbalia, where your class prejudices become truly tested.Taking the role of Sir Rhys, 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 37 paragraphs.

A 300-panel fantasy game book! A girl is missing – kidnapped by a horrific shadowy beast called Prince Drakk. When you discover your old rival, Garvan Skullsplitter, has entered a dangerous underworld labyrinth in search of her, you set off in pursuit, determined to complete the quest and make a fool of your rival at the same time. As you explore the dungeon, you will choose which allies to trust and which foes to face as you prepare yourself for your inevitable showdown with Prince Drakk. A vile evil to slay, a rival to outdo and a captive girl to save – do you have what it takes to survive the Underworld Horror?

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.

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.

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? Years ago an esclachier horde killed your family. Now the mindless beasts have massacred another village. Against orders, you head out alone for revenge. The village is already lost, but vengeance burns too fiercely in your heart to allow the monsters to escape a second time. Taking the role of Battalion Chief Sedina, 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 53 paragraphs.

The first Operation WetFish, Vampire Detective gamebook. Police incompetence, witness intimidation, expensive lawyers. There are many reasons the guilty walk free of court. For Operation WetFish, a legal and entirely unorthodox department of the London police, the courts never have the final say. Frame-ups, alerting rival gangs or simply making the bad guys disappear … Operation WetFish employs a variety of methods to clean up the mistakes of the courts. Charles Baronaire lives for the thrill of making the streets safe. But Baronaire has other things on his mind. He’s stronger, faster, more agile than ordinary human beings; he can focus his mind to alter people’s perceptions, can establish command over nature’s baser creatures. And he has an insatiable appetite for human blood. Now you can take control of Baronaire as he and his partner race across London searching for clues to bring down a murderer. You choose which directions the investigation will take and which witnesses to interrogate. Do you have what it takes to solve a murder, and can you keep your abilities secret in the process? A gamebook of 80 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?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.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise. When a bedraggled young woman named Miss Haldane stumbles into Grizzleton claiming to have been robbed by a thieving grizzly, Bear dons his hat and rides out alongside her to get her pearls back. Taking the role of Sheriff Grizzly, you must make the decisions which shall recover the pearls and put the bandit bear behind bars … or maybe your choices will be bad ones and you’ll get yourself run over by a train or something. Armed with your pistols, your badge and your own common sense (because Bear doesn’t have any), only you can solve the crime and serve justice to the Wild West wasteland. A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.

It’s Christmas Eve and Santa’s left a present behind! As a young elf named Sam, you were on Santa-watch – which means you were the one who was supposed to make sure things like this didn’t happen. Now poor Timmy won’t get his Christmas present. Teaming up with a reindeer trainee named Klutz, you must follow Santa across the United Kingdom in hopes of getting Timmy’s present to him in time. Along the way you will encounter all manner of faeries – some will help, others will hinder. It is up to you to decide which faeries to trust and which route to take, all the while flying against the clock. Can you get Timmy’s present to Santa in time? A gamebook of 52 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? An unexpected visit from an infamous Dark Xagus reveals startling news: the villain’s lover has been kidnapped, along with Braal – a member of your own battalion. Joining forces with this Xagus to investigate the double kidnap, your journey will bring you to the darker areas of Torbalia, into contact with knights and lords and all manner of unnatural beasts. You must brave them all if you have any hope of rescuing the two captives and bringing an end to Torbalia’s deepest shame. Taking the role of High Commander Ket, 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 50 paragraphs.

Your name is Roark. For thousands of years, you have been conducting experiments on the human race. Immortal and immune to pain, you yearn to understand what it means to be alive, yet your constant quest seldom bears fruit. To this end, you have trapped five people (two knights, an old priestess, a young acolyte and a travelling musician) in a temple filled with traps and monsters. If they can find the exit, you have promised to set them free. Unlike other gamebooks, here you take the role of the villain. It is up to you to beset the heroes with problems, to send in monsters or create walls of fire. All the while, you must watch them and try to further your understanding of their simple species. Can the heroes defeat you, and can you keep them alive long enough to learn something from them? A gamebook of 61 paragraphs.

His town: Grizzleton. His name: Bear. His secret: He’s a grizzly bear wearing a sheriff’s uniform … but doesn’t realise. Waking up to an abandoned town, Bear receives a call for help from young Doc Tinkly on one of those new-fangled infernal telephonic machines. Walking out into the desert, he finds himself lost in the strangest underground dungeon adventure ever. Taking the role of Sheriff Grizzly, you must make the decisions which shall reunite you with Doc Tinkly and hopefully explain all the weirdness going on … or maybe your choices will be bad ones and you’ll fall off a rainbow or something and die. Armed with your pistols, your badge and your own common sense (because Bear doesn’t have any), only you can defeat the dungeon and restore a little sanity to the Wild West wasteland. A gamebook of 100 paragraphs.