Romance, drama & emotional stories — updated daily
The Kauri That Remembered
A Māori police constable returns to her ancestral bush town to investigate a vanished land surveyor — and finds the forest itself is rewriting colonial maps.
The Last Landmark
A female gang prospect uncovers a political scandal tied to a scifi land dispute, forcing her to navigate colonial ghosts and bicultural tensions in a world where the past is rewritten by technology.
The Tide Took the Pā
A Māori woman rebuilds her ancestral pā after a tsunami erases the colonial survey markers—only to find the land remembers who it belonged to before the Crown.
The Tide Takes What the Land Won’t
A Māori widow on a dying coastal farm races to save her family’s last standing pātiki net before the sea swallows the cliffs—only to find the tide doesn’t rise from the ocean, but from the bones of the drowned ancestors she was told to forget.
The Girl Who Fed the Bush with Silence
A lonely kaiāwhina at a decaying dairy farm in the Waitākere Ranges discovers the ghost child of a landwar refugee isn’t haunting the shed—she’s keeping the land alive. When the girl’s presence begins to heal the soil poisoned by colonial drainage schemes, the farmer’s son falls for her. But the law says spirits can’t own land. And the land, now breathing, remembers who stole it.
The Vineyard That Grew Teeth
A Māori vineyard manager inherits a decaying Hawke’s Bay estate only to find its vines feed on bureaucratic red tape — and the land remembers every land confiscation.
The Last Tackle at Puketapu
A Māori girl in a decaying coastal town must run the final rugby match of the season—while the land beneath the field wakes up, claiming those who ignore its claims.




