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The Stranger was an erotic novel written by Portia Da Costa, and was released under the Black Lace line of books. It was published in 2012 by Ebury Publishing, manager of the prose rights to Doctor Who as well as the BBC Books brand.

The main character of The Stranger was the young widow Claudia Marwood, who had been mentioned as one of the Eighth Doctor's companions, Claudia, in the BBC Books Eighth Doctor Adventures novels Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles. In the pattern of many BBC Books Short Trips stories which feature the Doctor without ever explicitly identifying them, Claudia's brilliant but amnesiac love interest in The Stranger was the Eighth Doctor under the alias "Doctor Paul Bowman". Indeed, when Claudia was mentioned in Father Time, she was said to have spent time with the Doctor at a time when he had lost his memory, matching Bowman's appearance and characteristics in The Stranger.

Publisher's summary
Once she had got over the initial shock of the young man's nudity, Claudia allowed herself to breathe properly again...

When Claudia finds a sexy stranger near her home she discovers that he has lost his memory along with his clothes.

Having turned her back on relationships since the death of her husband, Claudia finds herself scandalising her friends by inviting the stranger into her home and into her bed...

Author's summary
Find out what happens in an alternate universe when a drop dead gorgeous amnesiac [who might once have been the Eighth Doctor Who, allegedly] turns up on the doorstep of beautiful and sensual widow Claudia Marwood…

When a confused and mysterious young man stumbles into the life of the recently widowed Claudia, he reignites her sleeping sexuality. But is the handsome and angelic Paul really a combination of innocent and voluptuary, amnesiac and genius? Claudia's friends become involved in trying to decide whether or not he is to be trusted. As an erotic obsession flowers between Paul and Claudia, and all taboos are obliterated, his true identity no longer seems to matter.

Plot
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Characters

 * Claudia Marwood
 * "Paul Bowman"
 * Melody Truebridge
 * Beatrice Quine
 * Tristan Van Dissell
 * Sacha, the Comte D'Aronville
 * Felicity Neston
 * Richard Truebridge
 * Gerald Marwood
 * "Vivian"

Continuity

 * "Paul Bowman" wore a black velvet Edwardian frock coat with grey trousers, a black and grey striped brocade waistcoat, a wing collared shirt, and a grey silk cravat. (TV: Doctor Who, et al.)
 * While moving the frock coat, Claudia found a period fob watch in one of the pockets. (TV: Doctor Who, The Night of the Doctor, COMIC: The Pictures of Josephine Day)
 * "Paul" surprises Claudia by appearing at her door wounded in the middle of a storm. He met another of his companions, Mary Shelley, in a similar way. (AUDIO: Mary's Story)
 * Claudia believed that Paul was telepathic. (TV: Doctor Who)
 * Paul disliked hospitals, hinting at a recent traumatic experience. (TV: Doctor Who)
 * In PROSE: Father Time, the Eighth Doctor recalled being "in England. Spending some time with a… friend. A young widow named Claudia."
 * Claudia was one of the Eighth Doctor's companions. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles)