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The Pounamu Heist at Te Rerenga Wairua
A drifter steals a sacred stone from a forgotten chapel, triggering ancestral retribution in a coastal town still healing from land wars. The land remembers. The stone calls back.
The Tide Takes What the Land Forgot
A retired nurse races against the tide to return a carved pounamu to its ancestral reef before the spring equinox, unaware the land itself remembers every stolen thing — and won’t let go without a reckoning.
The Kauri’s Bargain
A truck driver hauling stolen kauri timber through the Coromandel bush is hunted by ancestral guardians after violating a colonialera law that still binds the land. The forest remembers what men forgot.
The Land Remembers What the Papers Forgot
A struggling farmer in the Waikato bush uncovers a hidden treaty mound beneath his dying dairy paddock — a sacred site buried by colonial surveyors. When he digs to reclaim it, the earth shifts, and the old ways wake.
The Pounamu That Breathed
A corrupt councillor steals a ancestral pounamu to silence Māori land claims—only to find it drains the life from anyone who touches it, while the bush starts whispering back.
The Pākehā Boy Who Walked With the Taniwha
A sixteenyearold runaway hides in the bush after stealing his father’s surveyor’s chain, only to find the land remembers — and reclaims — what colonial maps tried to erase.
The Last Shearer’s Hand
A disgraced London artist returns to his ancestral West Coast sheep station, where the land remembers every wrong and the old shearing shed still hums with wairua. He must shear one last flock before the bank takes it — or become part of the bush’s silence.
The Land Remembers His Name
A drifter stumbles into a West Coast town where the earth refuses to let go of the past — and the only woman who speaks to him is tied to a forbidden treaty breach from 1912. When he digs up a stolen pounamu, the land itself turns against him.
The Boy Who Walked the Pākehā Fence
A Māori widower is forced to marry a settler’s daughter to settle a land claim—until his son’s ghost begins walking the boundary line, rewriting the deed with every step.
The Salt and the Stone
A vineyard manager inherits his grandfather’s coastal plot—only to find the land refuses to yield, haunted by a treaty breach buried in the dunes. When the sea starts swallowing the vines, he must choose between profit and the old ways.
The Road Eats the Land
A truck driver hauling timber through the Waikato bush discovers the earth itself remembers the land wars — and when the river swells, it doesn’t flood. It reclaims.
The Ghost of Te Kura Pounamu
A estranged son returns to his family’s ancestral land, only to be framed for a crime tied to a Māori legend that haunts the region.
The Kaitiaki’s Last Tide
A disgraced son returns to his father’s abandoned coastguard station to bury the past, only to find the sea itself remembers the land it stole—and the ghosts it won’t release.
