When Time Fell in Love With Blood

Three thousand years ago, a lonely traveler sat beneath the trees, carrying the weight of war no one else could understand.

A young woman named Mara sat beside him.

She never knew that a single conversation would shake the fate of the universe. He never knew that, before the next sunrise, she would lose her life... only to awaken as something else.

Centuries passed.

Civilizations rose and crumbled into dust. Languages were born and forgotten. The world changed beyond recognition, but Mara remained--an eternal witness to humanity's endless capacity for both cruelty and hope.

Then, in 2005, the Tardis brings her thief back into the immortal woman's life.

He took one look at her...

...and whispered the name he never thought he'd say again.

"Mara."

She stared back at the man with a face she'd never seen before.

He remembered everything, every word.

She remembered only a stranger from her first, mortal lifetime.

As they travel together through time and space, the Doctor finds himself falling in love with the same woman twice-- once as the man she met beneath the ancient, young trees, and again as the man after the war was over. But time has never been kind to those it brings together, and some love stories demand impossible sacrifices.

After all...

When time falls in love with blood, forever is only the beginning.