Superior Beings by Nick Walters

Superior Beings is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Fifth Doctor and has been written by Nick Walters.

Peri is getting used to time travel with the Doctor, and the TARDIS seems to like her, even leaving little presents for her.

The TARDIS takes them to a pleasure planet to meet a group of very advanced humans, Peri falls for the charms of the local hunk and finds herself flying headlong into a quite different form of time-travel...

The Valethske are master hunters and their favourite prey is humans, they prefer human flesh to any other. They have been sleeping for hundreds of years and now they awake hungry.

The Doctor, who has teamed up a shamed xenologist called Aline Vehlmann, finds himself caught up in the machinations of the vulpine hunters, and discovers that fresh meat isn't all they're after.

For deep beneath the surface of a strange and beautiful garden-planet, something is waiting. Something that Aline believes is her destiny. Something for which the Valethske have been searching for centuries. And as events escalate into a desperate fight for survival, who will prove themselves the superior beings?