Moon Landing Chronicles

Landing Under The Moon follows Natalie Jane, an eighteen-year-old Auckland girl shaped by foster care, abandonment, loneliness, and survival. Raised between unstable homes and emotional neglect, Natalie has spent most of her life learning how to disappear quietly enough not to become a problem. Books, vampires, and fantasy worlds become her escape from a reality that has always felt temporary. On the night of her eighteenth birthday, during a violent Auckland storm, Natalie receives an impossible visitor. A man named Lucien appears outside her fourth-storey apartment window - ancient, calm, terrifying, and somehow familiar. Natalie quickly discovers he is a vampire, and even more disturbingly, that he has been quietly watching over her for years. That same night, Natalie chooses immortality. Lucien transforms her into a vampire, binding her forever to a hidden world existing beneath ordinary New Zealand life. But becoming immortal is nothing like the fantasy Natalie once imagined. The transformation brings overwhelming hunger, heightened senses, emotional intensity, and the terrifying realisation that she can no longer safely exist among humans. Together, Natalie and Lucien stage her death and flee south through Waikato and the King Country, travelling through isolated towns, forests, and hidden rural communities while Natalie struggles to control her hunger and understand what she has become. As their relationship deepens, Natalie discovers Lucien is far older, lonelier, and more emotionally damaged than he first appears. Meanwhile, Natalie slowly transforms from a traumatised girl surviving day to day into something far stronger - and far more dangerous. Blending gothic romance, psychological tension, dark humour, and emotional realism against the haunting backdrop of New Zealand life, Landing Under The Moon is a story about survival, loneliness, found family, and what it truly means to become a monster.

Some people survive by becoming something else. Others survive by finally allowing themselves to live. After choosing death over a half-life, Nara awakens beneath lantern light reborn into a world she barely understands. Moon Landing - once a hidden sanctuary for the broken, grieving, and forgotten - is changing. What was once a refuge now stands vulnerable beneath growing threats, ancient secrets, impossible hunger, and the terrifying reality of forever. As immortality settles into her bones, Nara must learn to survive a body no longer entirely human, while the people around her struggle to protect the fragile life they've built together deep within the hills of New Zealand's west coast. But peace never stays untouched for long. Old predators are stirring. Hidden worlds are beginning to collide. And beneath storms, bonfires, blood, laughter, grief, and lantern light, Moon Landing slowly becomes something far more dangerous than a sanctuary: A home worth fighting for. Set against rain-soaked highways, isolated farms, black sand beaches, forgotten roadside towns, and the haunting beauty of rural Aotearoa, Landing Under Lanterns continues the emotionally charged gothic saga of love, trauma, survival, found family, and the hidden cost of immortality. For readers who love: • Dark supernatural fiction • Gothic romance • Found family • Slow-burn emotional storytelling • Rural gothic atmosphere • Vampires with humanity • New Zealand settings and mythology-inspired atmosphere Because sometimes the most frightening thing in the world is not death. Sometimes it is finally finding something worth living for.

In the storm-lashed hills and isolated backroads of rural New Zealand, something impossible has awakened. Moon Landing was supposed to be safe. Hidden deep within the forests of the King Country, the lantern-lit farmstead had become a sanctuary for monsters trying to build something resembling a life. Vampires, werewolves, and broken people had carved out a fragile existence beyond the reach of the world. But safety never lasts forever. Only weeks after returning from their honeymoon, Nara and Reuben begin noticing strange changes around the property. The forests fall silent after dark. Animals refuse to approach the homestead. Dreams of black water and endless stars spread through the house. Something ancient is moving beyond the boundaries of Moon Landing. Then the impossible becomes undeniable. Nara is pregnant. But nothing about the child obeys normal biology. The pregnancy accelerates at terrifying speed. Telepathic abilities begin emerging around the unborn child. Emotions bleed between minds. Ancient beings hidden for centuries suddenly begin listening. Because the child growing inside Nara is not human. Not vampire. Not werewolf. Something else. As terrifying creatures gather in the forests surrounding Moon Landing, Lucien realises the child may be something the supernatural world has never seen before - and something ancient wants him. Set against the rain-soaked highways, isolated farms, forests, black sand beaches, and forgotten roadside towns of rural New Zealand, Landing Under Firelight blends gothic romance, paranormal horror, supernatural mystery, dark humour, and emotional realism into a deeply character-driven supernatural saga about loneliness, found family, survival, and the emotional cost of immortality. Because some people survive by becoming something else. Others survive by finally allowing themselves to live.