The book was not written with a spin-off series in mind, but was created by Telos after its licence to publish Doctor Who came to an end.

This leads to him being kidnapped by Mestizer's servant, a hulking cyborg named Abraxas, and to learn about the Doctor's apparent connection to "the girl in the pink pyjamas", a mysterious amnesiac who appeared in the East End of London after what was assumed to be the detonation of an unexploded bomb.

In September 2008, Telos announced that a fan production company, Fantom Films, had been licensed to produce audiobook readings of the Time Hunter novellas for release on CD and as online downloads.

The series begins with The Cabinet of Light, read by the former Doctor Who actor Terry Molloy and released in November 2008.

Changes have been made to the text of this version of The Cabinet of Light to allow it to stand as a Time Hunter novella independent of its Doctor Who connections.