HAKA! THE BACKLASH
Wounded Lands, Ancient Tears.
“But the blood they buried remembers...”
When the machinery of empire breaches sacred Mana in 1869,
it awakens in 1985.
Stand with Hine Kura in 1869 as the Queen's Armed Constabulary unleash the Fires of Hell upon her Māori village, killing her people and her family Eruera and Ōmakī.
Intercepted by The Fluttering Falcon Hine Kura is reminded of an ancient prophecy of a Chosen One, before she meets her destiny.
By 1985, the world had largely forgotten.
On the sun-drenched East Coast, Joe Finch and Ellie Te Aroha join with their close friends The Gang, on a summer Road Trip that was meant to be the best time of their lives—
but the echoes of the past had other plans...
Unearthing an ancient Pounamu Hei-tiki, Joe and Ellie unwittingly carry untold sorrows of the past into the machinations of the mundane world.
There, ghosts haunt them—an incorporeal phenomenon the Empire tried to outlaw and erase.
Caught in a web of bureaucracy, Joe must defend himself and his Māori culture against a cruel, fire-breathing hydra—the manifestations of the British Crown itself.
Will he succeed...?
HAKA! THE BACKLASH
From the 1869 scorched-earth policy to the neon-and-grit construct of 1985, haunted by powers that transcend mortal lifespans, HAKA! THE BACKLASH is not your typical Gothic ghost horror novel.
Set against the breath-taking vistas of Gisborne, New Zealand, this literary addition to PACIFIC GOTHIC is an unrelenting exploration of the impact of colonial-era atrocities against indigenous Māori and the traumatic aftermath plaguing modern society.