Dark Horizons (novel)

Dark Horizons is the third long-length Eleventh Doctor novel.

Publisher's summary
"Now, you may or may not have noticed, but we appear to be on fire..."

On a windswept Northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path - yet the burned still speak. The Doctor is just looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them all. Add in some marauding Vikings with very bad timing, a kidnapped princess with a secret of her own and a TARDIS that seems to have developed an inexplicable fear of water, and they all have a battle on their hands. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; without communications; without tea that isn't made out of bark. Still at least they have the Doctor on their side... Don't they?

Characters

 * Eleventh Doctor

Continuity

 * The Fourth Doctor, K-9, and an unidentified female companion (either Leela or Romana) make a cameo appearance during a segment of the novel set in the present day.

Timeline

 * Dark Horizons occurs after IDW: Silent Knight
 * Dark Horizons occurs before DW: Closing Time

Audio release

 * The story was released as an audiobook in download and CD form read by Neve McIntosh.