Emotional Chemistry (novel)

Emotional Chemistry was the sixty-sixth release in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Simon A. Forward. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Trix MacMillan.

Publisher's summary
"Love! Surely one of the most destructive forces in the universe. There's nothing a man — or woman — won't do for true love."

1812. The Vishenkov household, along with the rest of Moscow, faces the advance of Napoleon Bonaparte. At its heart is the radiant Dusha, a source of strength and inspiration — and more besides — for them all. Captain Victor Padorin, heroic Hussar and family friend, meanwhile, acts like a man possessed — by the Devil.

2024. Fitz is under interrogation regarding a burglary and fire at the Kremlin. The Doctor has disappeared in the flames. Colonel Bugayev is investigating a spate of antique thefts, centred in Moscow, on top of which he now has a time-travel mystery to unravel.

5000. Lord General Razum Kinzhal is preparing to set in motion the closing stages of a world war. More than the enemy, his fellow generals of the Icelandic Alliance fear what such a man might do in peacetime. What can possibly bridge these disparate events in time? Love will find a way. But the Doctor must find a better alternative. Before love sets the world on fire.

Characters

 * The Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Trix
 * Colonel Grigoriy Bugayev
 * Captain Zhelnin
 * Dusha
 * Razum Kinzhal
 * Aphrodite Diamante
 * Harald Skoglund
 * Vladimir Garudin
 * Alexander Vishenkov
 * Irena Vishenkov
 * Natasha Vishenkov
 * Yuri Vishenkov
 * Angel Malenkaya
 * Gren de Schalles
 * Karsen Mogushestvo
 * Kel Vorman
 * Olrik Sund
 * Tatyana
 * Victor Padorin
 * Wargaard

Continuity

 * The First Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet previously visited Russia in 1812 during Napoléon Bonaparte (AUDIO: Mother Russia), as did Iris Wildthyme (AUDIO: The Panda Invasion, AUDIO: The Claws of Santa).
 * Grigoriy Bugayev reappears (chronologically for the first time) in the Lethbridge-Stewart novel, Blood of Atlantis, set in November 1969. At that point he was a captain, and was promoted at the end of major.