First Born (novel)

First Born was the sixteenth release in the BBC Torchwood Novels series. It served as a prequel to TW: The New World.

Publisher's summary
Gwen and Rhys are on the run. Rhys was hoping this meant a windswept cottage on a cliff top, but he’s had to settle for a miserable caravan in the isolated village of Rawbone. With the locals taking an unhealthy interest in their daughter, Gwen and Rhys start to realise that something is very wrong.

As they uncover the village’s terrible past, Gwen discovers that Torchwood will never leave her behind, and now she and Rhys stand alone in defence of the Earth. And the children of Rawbone can only bring her closer to the secret forces that want her out of the way.

Torchwood

 * Gwen Cooper
 * Rhys Williams

Inhabitants of Rawbone

 * Tom
 * Josh
 * Eloise
 * Sasha
 * Davydd
 * Nerys
 * Mrs. Meredith
 * Tony Brown

Scions

 * Sebastian
 * Jenny
 * Billy

Continuity

 * Gwen has a nightmare about the death of Ianto Jones and Jack Harkness. (TW: Children of Earth: Day Four)
 * Gwen also has a nightmare about Abaddon's shadow (TW: End of Days), the Blaidd Drwg nuclear station (DW: Boom Town, TWN: Another Life), the Large Hadron Collider (BBCR: Lost Souls), cannibal cults (TW: Countrycide) and the 456 (TW: Children of Earth)

Timeline

 * First Born occurs after TW: Children of Earth: Day Five
 * First Born occurs before TW: The New World

Audio release

 * The story was released as an audiobook on download only from the AudioGo website read by Clare Corbett, Kai Owen, Katherine Fenton, Joe Jameson, Carole Boyd, Michael Stevens and Susie Riddell.