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The Land That Forgot to Sell
A schoolteacher bound by a colonialera contract must marry a Māori landholder to keep his ancestral farm — but the land itself remembers what the law tried to erase.
The Hollow Council
A corrupt councillor uncovers a buried secret that threatens the town's foundation, forcing a reckoning with colonial ghosts and the cost of standing out.
The Last Pā Kauri
A Māori elder burns the last standing kauri tree to stop a land surveyor from claiming ancestral land — but the tree’s spirit wakes, and the bush starts remembering everything the Crown erased.
The Last Tūpuna at Pukekura
A disgraced rugby player returns to his ancestral coast to bury his father, only to find the land won’t let go— until he becomes the sacrifice the old ways demand.
The Last Shearer’s Pact
A Māori police constable uncovers a land deal that rewrites the law of sheep farming in the West Coast bush — but the truth lives in the hills, not in files.
The Ghost of Hinepōkai
A disgraced rugby player is drawn into a bicultural alliance to uncover a colonialera curse buried in the bush, where the past refuses to stay buried.
Ashes of the Last Lease
A Māori single mother fights to save her land from a colonialera ghost, uncovering a betrayal that reshapes her village’s future.
The Pākehā and the Pōhutukawa
A rural constable binds his soul to a ancestral tree to save a Māori woman from a colonial ghost — but the pact demands he forget his own name.
The Land That Forgot to Pay
A retired nurse inherits a crumbling coastal shack tied to a forgotten Māori land claim — but the Crown’s paperwork demands she prove her grandfather’s silence was consent. The land won’t let her leave until she digs up what the bureaucracy buried.
