Jacqueline Rayner

The Doctor and a tight-knit group of allies arrive in a city where memory is not a private possession but a shared commodity. A sequence of vanished hours points to a culprit who siphons time from the living, leaving only glittering echoes of what once was. In close quarters, fear becomes a weapon, and loyalties fray as old enemies masquerade as new allies. The Doctor must disassemble a mesh of half-remembered truths, coax the city’s hidden heart into speaking, and decide whether to repair the split or let the wound widen until nothing remains but the ticking of a borrowed clock.