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The Kauri TrilogySeries

This epic saga transports readers on seafaring adventures to distant lands, where cultures and destinies collide. The air is thick with adventure, mystery, and the age-old struggle between good and evil. The narrative follows protagonists on their quest for freedom, challenging them against both the elements and their inner demons. It's a tale of courage, sacrifice, and the search for one's place in the world.

Beneath the Kauri tree
Toward the Sea of Freedom
Flight of a Maori goddess

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    Toward the Sea of Freedom

    • 555 pages
    • 20 hours of reading
    4.0(609)Add rating

    "In mid-nineteenth-century Ireland, charming Kathleen and dashing Michael harbor secrets and dreams. Imagining a life beyond the kitchen and fields of the wealthy family they both work for, they plot to leave their homeland, marry, and raise the child Kathleen is secretly carrying. The luck of the Irish, however, is not on their side. Soon, they find themselves swept up in circumstances they never could have fathomed. Kathleen is forced to marry against her will and immigrate to New Zealand. Michael is imprisoned for rebellion and exiled to Australia. As time passes and their new lives march on, they long for those stolen moments in the lush green fields of their native land. And they both still dream of escape, with no idea of how close fate will eventually bring them."--Provided by publisher.

    Toward the Sea of Freedom
  2. 2

    Beneath the Kauri tree

    • 572 pages
    • 21 hours of reading
    4.1(291)Add rating

    From the author of Toward the Sea of Freedom comes a novel of the triumphs, tragedies, and courage of two women bravely changing the tide of history... As the nineteenth century draws to a close, the struggle for women's suffrage has finally reached New Zealand. But when the tide of change rolls in, it threatens to engulf two young women from very different backgrounds, who are coming of age amid the tumult. Torn between the two worlds that make up her heritage, Matariki Drury is the daughter of a successful white businesswoman and a descendant of Maori royalty. Scarred by poverty and hoping to make a new life for herself in this strange and forbidding land, Violet Paisley is the middle child of a poor Welsh coal-mining family. Drawn together by their shared commitment to social change, and tested by traumas that neither of them could foresee, these two independent-minded women will find themselves thrust onto the front lines of the fight for equal rights and racial justice. To win their place in this world, they must learn to rise above their personal pain and choose a path of reconciliation rather than retribution.

    Beneath the Kauri tree
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