The Oceania Fiction Collection: White Spirit / High Country Contract / Fiji: A Novel / New Zealand: A Novel / The Last Tasmanian Tiger / Once Were Brothers was launched today (19 May 2026 NZ Time) and is already ranked #1 in one New Release Category on Amazon.
This six-book box set, which comprises an intriguing mix of historical fiction and contemporary thrillers, is available as a Kindle ebook and Audible audiobook.
Each book in the collection has been well received by critics, and two of them (White Spirit and Fiji: A Novel) have featured in Amazon’s Bestseller lists.
The storylines are all set in a place known as Oceania – that vast geographical region spanning the Pacific Ocean and encompassing New Zealand, Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia.
Brief synopses follow (in order) for each book in The Oceania Fiction Collection:
1. White Spirit (A novel based on a true story) – by Lance & James Morcan
Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, this novel is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own.
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2. High Country Contract – by Lance & James Morcan
In this tense, fast-paced, action-thriller, young Kiwi drifter Arch Quaid thinks he has landed the contract of his life when he’s hired to cull deer on a high-country property in New Zealand’s South Island. He quickly changes his mind when he discovers he’s the hunted, not the hunter. Caught up in the middle of it all is his new love Janine, a beautiful Maori girl.
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3. Fiji: A Novel – by Lance & James Morcan
Fiji is a spellbinding novel of adventure, cultural misunderstandings, religious conflict and sexual tension set in one of the most exotic and isolated places on earth. It’s in this hostile environment that Susannah Drake, an innocent English missionary, and Nathan Johnson, a worldly American adventurer find themselves.
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4. New Zealand: A Novel – by Lance Morcan
This epic adventure spans almost 500 years and covers the respective discoveries of New Zealand by Pacific Islanders and Europeans. From the outset the two stories are interposed. The hardy, brown-skinned people who arrive here first call themselves Maori and they call their new home Aotearoa – Land of the long, white cloud.
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5. The Last Tasmanian Tiger – by Lance Morcan
In this short story set in Tasmania, Australia, Aborigine Charlie Truganini can’t believe his eyes when trekking through the wilderness he sees a Tasmanian Tiger – a carnivorous marsupial considered by most Australians to be extinct. Charlie doesn’t want this tiger to meet the same fate as the last one. And so, he makes a decision – a decision that will have life-and-death consequences.
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6. Once were Brothers – by Lance Morcan
In this novella, set in 19th Century New Zealand, seven-year-old Daniel Thomas is abducted from this family’s farm by Maoris angered by the desecration of land considered sacred. Daniel’s father, devotes his remaining years to searching for his missing son. He’s assisted in his search by Daniel’s identical twin brother Benjamin. Twenty years later, Benjamin receives a tip-off that could confirm one way or another whether his brother is alive or dead.
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The #Amazon link to The Oceania Fiction Collection: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX336TS1/
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