by Cavan Scott
First published 2018
Missy has her own agenda when the Doctor isn't around to interfere. The renegade Time Lord faces exclusion from a private members' club that bars women, so she plots her revenge against the leading lights who rejected her. The High Council forces her into a dangerous mission after hijacking her TARDIS, but Missy refuses to play puppet to anyone. She takes a governess position in the 1920s to get close to a wish granting alien teddy bear. Trapped between two time zones in Venice, she battles militaristic Gryphons while fighting for survival. Missy goes online to manipulate the past and prove women should rule the world. On the Mondas Colony Ship, she and the Master search for escape routes while the Doctor recovers, dragging a stowaway along. These six tales reveal what the Master's female incarnation does when she's free to pursue her own mad and malevolent schemes.
Genres: science-fiction, adventure, fantasy, thriller
Vibes: dark, suspenseful, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Mondas, Venice, 1920s
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
218 pages · Hardcover · Penguin Group UK
Content warnings: violence