'Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible' by Marc Platt

You're on your own, Ace.

The TARDIS is invaded by an alien presence, and is then destroyed. The Doctor disappears.

Ace, lost and alone, finds herself in a bizarre deserted city ruled by the tyrannical, leech-like monster known as the Process.

Lost voyagers drawn forward from Ancient Gallifrey perform obsessive rituals in the ruins.

The strands of time are tangled in a cat's cradle of dimensions.

Only the Doctor can challenge the rule of the Process and restore the stolen Future.

But the Doctor was destroyed long ago, before Time began.


Publication Date:
February 1992

Notes:
*Featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace

*The first book in the Cat's Cradle series

*First mention of the Doctor's family home, Lungbarrow

*A Virgin Books 'New Adventures' novel

*Working title: 'Old Haunts'