Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark (novel)

Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark is the seventh novel in the Virgin New Adventures series, and the final book in the Cat's Cradle arc. It was written by Andrew Hunt, and features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

Publisher's summary
Spare no sympathy for those creatures. They were witches, they deserved to die.

A coach crashes on the M40. All the passengers are killed. The bodies carry no identification; they are wearing similar new clothes. And each has a suitcase full of banknotes.

A country vet delivers a foal. The mare has a deep wound in her forehead. In the straw, the vet finds a tapered horn.

In the darkening and doomed world known to its inhabitants as Tír na n-Óg, the besieged humans defend the walls of their citadel Dinorben against mythical beasts and demons.

The TARDIS's link with the Eye of Harmony is becoming ever more tenuous and is in urgent need of repair. But the time machine takes the Doctor and Ace to a village in rural Wales, and a gateway to another world.

Characters

 * The Seventh Doctor
 * Is still afraid of fire.
 * Ace
 * Isn't very religious.
 * Lynx
 * The silver cat which has been popping up, which is generated by the TARDIS.
 * Herne
 * Goibhnie
 * Bathsheba
 * Inspector Stevens
 * Hugh
 * Janet
 * Rhys -
 * Constable Hughes
 * Stuart Taylor - Local Vet

Foods and Beverages

 * The Doctor and Ace eat potato and leek soup.
 * The Doctor fries up bacon for everyone.

Continuity

 * Clones of the Doctor and Ace appear in NA: Return of the Living Dad.
 * In NA: Deceit it's revealed the effects of the protoplasm on the Doctor.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DWM: Ravens
 * This story takes place before NA: Nightshade