Investigating a temporal disturbance in San Francisco on the last night of 1999, the Seventh Doctor is shot answering a routine question and dies on an operating table under the hands of a skeptical cardiologist, Grace Holloway — only to regenerate on screen for the first time into a new, more romantic Eighth Doctor, with the Master scheming to steal his remaining lives. Gary Russell novelizes the 1996 TV movie that served as Doctor Who's sole 1990s outing.
Summary by Loreful, from public sources