Set against the backdrop of the stunning Marlborough Sounds in New Zealand, Maggie and Tom arrive to escape his oppressive family and start a business. When Tom disappears, buried secrets and family plots make paradise less than perfect.

In a near-future, darknet grifter Dougie is recruited to work security at a refugee detention centre. There, he is drawn into an underground operation blackmailing detainees to fight for profit. When tragedy strikes courageous fighter Azad, Dougie locates his hitherto dormant conscience and takes a stand.

WhenJess’sonlysonstartsschoolit’sabiglearningcurve,forJess.She’sthrownintoaworldofknow-it-all,judgmental,passiveaggressivewomenwhoseprimarypurposeistopromotetheirchildasthemostgifted,mostbrilliantandmostbestestchildever.Andlet’snotevenstartontheteachers.JoiningtheJuniorFundraisingCommitteetohelpestablishherselfintheschoolcommunity,Jesshopesthathereffortsmightalsohelphertofindsomecompanionship,butalphamumHeatherismoreinterestedinmakingmoneythanmakingfriends.Luckily,superchillmother-of-fiveHineistheretoplaypeacemaker.Togetherthemumsmustreacharidiculousfundraisinggoal,withlimitedresourcesandapoorgraspofteamwork.Thingsaren’tlookingsupergreat.

When Kylie Bucknell is sentenced to home detention, she’s forced to come to terms with her unsociable behaviour, her blabbering mother and a hostile spirit who seems less than happy about the new living arrangement.