Touched by an Angel ( novel ) Touched by an Angel was the tenth Eleventh Doctor novel released . Publisher ' s summary . 2011 BBC Books edition . " The past is like a foreign country . Nice to visit , but you really wouldn ' t want to live there . " In 2003 , Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident . Her husband Mark is still grieving . He receives a battered envelope , posted eight years ago , containing a set of instructions with a simple message : " You can save her . " As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca , it ' s up to the Doctor , Amy and Rory to save the whole world . Because this time the Weeping Angel s are using Mark himself as a weapon to change history . 2014 BBC Books edition . " The past is like a foreign country . Nice to visit , but you really wouldn ' t want to live there . " In 2003 , Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident . Her husband Mark is still grieving . He receives a battered envelope , posted eight years earlier , containing a set of instructions with a simple message : " You can save her . " As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca , it ' s up to the Doctor , Amy and Rory to save the whole world . Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon . Plot . On 10 April 2003 , on the road to visit her parents , Rebecca Whitaker crashes into a lorry . Upside - down , she can see a statue , which seems to move toward her in the flashing light from the lorry . On 7 October 2011 , Rebecca ' s husband Mark is still mourning her death . His colleague Siobhan suggests that he should have a social life . She then gives him a package with the day ' s date on it , which had been archived under instructions that it be given to him on that date . Mark recognises his own handwriting on the package . Mark stops at a petrol station on his way home . He glimpses the statue of an angel on a CCTV screen , but when he turns around it is not there . However , it remains on the screen . The same thing happens at a Chinese restaurant , where the angel appears to be closer . As he passes by an electronics store , television s in the shop light up , displaying Mark with an Angel right behind his shoulder . A voice of a man warns him not to look , turn around , or close his eyes . The man instructs Amy and Rory to watch the screens ; the two alternate blinking . The voice explains to Mark that he is being stalked by a Weeping Angel , who is currently being observed by Amy and Rory and thus quantum - locked . He then tells Mark it is safe to turn around , and Mark meets the Doctor . The Doctor explains that the Angel only exists on screens and can only touch Mark if he is on them too . Mark runs home , but there is a camera by the door of his apartment , and he is touched by an angel . The Doctor , Amy , and Rory use the timey - wimey detector to trace Mark , arriving at a block of flats . There is an Angel at the entrance , but a chunk of stone falls of its wing when the Doctor taps it . He explains that the Angel has used up all its energy . He can follow the residual time energy to find Mark . Rory stays behind to learn more about Mark , and the Doctor agrees to pick him up in an hour . In the TARDIS , the Doctor learns that Mark had been sent to 1994 , which he is intrigued by because previously the Angels have not sent people back in their own timestreams , and thus there is a risk of paradox . He wants to prevent this , but the time trace is quickly fading . Amy brings up Rory , and they return to 2011 , albeit a week after they left . In that time Rory has traced Mark ' s family and friends . Meanwhile , a confused Mark finds that there are many pound notes in the envelope . There is also a letter with a list that is signed by his own name in his handwriting . The first item reads " 10 June 1994 : Arrival " , which he learns by newspaper is the date . The letter briefly explains that he cannot easily return to 2011 , that he needs to live with a new identity , and that he can " save her " . Mark visits his mother , who to his surprise does not recognise him . He pretends he is a distant relative from Canada , and pleads that she get her husband a heart exam . He knows that his father only has three years to live . Mark then travels by train to where his younger self resides as a student . He feels a strange tingling in his hand and glimpses a blue box following the train outside . The TARDIS crew can see six Weeping Angels on the roof of the train . Mark sees younger self with Sophie , his girlfriend at the time , and housemates Lucy and Rebecca . They go to the student union building for a dance . A light flickers across the building . The Doctor , Amy , and Rory can see the six Angels trailing him , and the Doctor says that they are waiting to feed off the energy when mark meets his older self . Amy and Rory , tasked with keeping the younger Mark busy , call him upstairs on an unexplained errand . The Doctor finds the older Mark , who refuses to be brought back to 2011 , and the Doctor punches him and drags him out of the building , claiming that he is drunk . They are met by Amy , Rory , and the Angels , and escape by jumping onto a bus . The younger Mark , meanwhile , is left alone with Rebecca and they kiss for the first time . The next morning in a hotel , the Doctor explains to Mark what the Weeping Angels want and that it is vital he get back . Mark says he cannot , telling them about the letter . He has put the letter in a safety deposit box . Mark explains this reasoning by telling of a time when his wallet was mysteriously returned in Rome ; he believes his older self was behind this . The Doctor offers to use the TARDIS to achieve the same thing , but Mark refuses , leaving the Doctor suspicious . He and Amy and Rory believe the story , however , and the Doctor allows him to stay if he promises not to interact with himself or alter history . He also wants Mark to make a copy of the letter and send it to himself when the time comes , which the Doctor claims will not make a paradox . Told through flashback s , Mark and Rebecca stay friends after college and sleep together in 1996 after drinking . They agree that this was a mistake , although Mark was lying . Their friendship becomes less close . They meet up again in 1997 , when " Becky " is still seeing Anthony and Mark is dating Jenny . Becky hands Mark a lottery ticket from a newspaper that she thought was his . The older Mark , unrecognisable to both , picks up the newspaper . The two Marks experience a tingling sensation in their hands . Mark and Rebecca kept in touch after this meeting and she invites Mark to Rome with her in 1998 ; the trip was booked for her and her and Anthony , but he cheated on her . They share a bed , but with a pillow firmly between them . The Doctor keeps the TARDIS trained on Mark ' s life , watching for any temporal disturbances . They return during the Rome visit , and Rory chases down the pickpoter who stole the younger Mark ' s wallet . The Doctor hands it in , but he is still aware of temporal disturbances . Mark remembers that he and Rebecca got locked in Capitoline Hill , and the TARDIS crew allow this to happen . They only escape the Angels because of a security guard . Meanwhile , locked together , a romance blossoms between Mark and Rebecca , and they sleep together than night after they are unlocked . In 1999 , the older Mark , disguised as " Harold Jones " , has been running an investment business , run by Pollard & Boyce . Mark asks Pollard to allow his younger self to get a job , although to never reveal his involvement . Meanwhile , the younger Mark proposes to Rebecca . After leaving Rome , the Doctor finds a disturbance on 4 November 2000 , and to his horror learns that Mark is about to watch his own wedding . Unfortunately , the Doctor has caused the limousine carrying Rebecca and her father to crash , and Mark has offered them a ride in his car to make it to the wedding on time . The Doctor , Amy , and Rory have no choice but to follow . The Doctor is worried because Mark remarks that Rebecca was not fifteen minutes late to the wedding the first time . The Doctor gives them a ride in his TARDIS instead so she arrives on time , even replacing her dress when it gets splashed with mud . He hypnotises Rebecca and her father so they do not remember this incident . However , the Doctor finds the Angels blocking the way to the church , and realises that they are trying to keep the two Marks apart . On 5 June 2001 , Mark begins to copy the letter which had told him where to intervene . In fact , it is the second copy he has made ; the first was the one he had shown to the Doctor previously , which omitted the words " YOU CAN SAVE HER . Just as I did . " Meanwhile , Mark ' s younger self discovers that a mysterious Harold Jones has been promoting his career , and attempts to track him down . He is surprised by how similar Harold is to himself , and the older Mark is worried because he does not recall this meeting taking place . He pretends to be Mark ' s cousin . When the younger Mark spots the letters , there are flashes of electricity and smoke . The Doctor , Amy , and Rory , who have landed nearby and struggled against the Blinovitch Limitation Effect , enter at that moment , as do the Weeping Angels . The Doctor , Amy , and Rory drag the two Marks outside . The older Mark comes to and tries to retrieve the letters , but they have burned . Mark despairs that history has changed , but the Doctor states that the Weeping Angels could have created the letter on psychic paper to create a trap . Mark drives away , refusing to answer the Doctor as to what else was on the list . The Doctor erases the younger Mark ' s memory of the incident , and he proceeds to go home to his wife . Rory recalls that Mark did not have a wife in 2011 , and the three realise that she must have died and he is going to prevent that . Suddenly , another Rory appears , explaining that he had been sent back in time by an Angel from 2003 . The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to allow the two Rorys to touch each other and gives the future Rory a fez to distinguish them . He then lands the TARDIS on the day Rebecca died . Mark has parked his car up the road so the lorry cannot pass . The Doctor , Amy , and the Rorys arrive , and the Doctor tells Mark about the trap . The Weeping Angels are converging , and there is no way Rebecca can survive because her death is a complicated space - time event . The Doctor gives Rory instructions , but he is touched by an Angel on his way back to the TARDIS . The future Rory , however , explains that he has set up what the Doctor wanted , but two Angels are in the way of the switch . The Doctor convinces Mark that he must do something and he illuminates the Angels with his headlights , allowing them to be watched , and he presses the switch . Six big halogen lights with attached television screens and cameras switch on , and the Angels fade and are now too weak to exist outside of television screens . However , the sixth Angel has escaped . They prevent it from reaching Rebecca , but she still dies in Mark ' s arms . The Doctor explains that the six Angel was the one dying and chasing Mark in 2011 . They take Mark to Rebecca ' s funeral , and then back to 1993 , where he meets a young Rebecca . He tells her a veiled life story and she advises him to move on and stop mourning his dead wife . She touches his face and he leaves , just before his younger self arrives and meets her for the same time . The Doctor notices that Mark looks younger since Rebecca touched him , making him the same age as when he met the Doctor in 2011 . The Doctor takes Mark back to his flat a week after he was sent back in time , and they leave . Mark , still with a lot of money from the Harold Jones endeavour , decides that he call up Rebecca ' s old friends Lucy and Emma and tell them the story .