{"product_id":"the-loop-nathan-eidem-9798248386956","title":"The Loop: The Pacific Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eYou are who you come from. And you come from everyone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAroha Te Rangi can recite her genealogy back seventeen generations. Every Māori child learns their whakapapa-the chain of names connecting them to their ancestors, their land, their identity. But Aroha's grandmother taught her a hidden genealogy. One that goes deeper than seventeen generations. One that goes all the way back to the fire.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Hatepe eruption of 186 AD created Lake Taupō-the largest lake in New Zealand, sitting in a caldera most people don't realize they're standing inside. Something arrived in that eruption. Something that settled into the volcanic wound and discovered, in the Māori who lived above it, a civilization that had already built the most sophisticated network of consciousness on Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhakapapa. The web of genealogical connections linking every person to every other through shared ancestors. The entity didn't need to build a lattice. It found one already in place. It didn't mark individuals. It wove its frequency into the carvings, the art, the oral traditions-so gently that the weaving became indistinguishable from the culture itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow, eighteen centuries later, a signal arrives from across the Pacific. The network is going global. And Aroha-keeper, cultural advisor, the woman who navigates daily between te ao Māori and the modern world-must protect the most important sacred site in New Zealand from a developer who sees lakefront property where she sees the ear of an ancient consciousness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Pacific Fire is the story of what happens when an alien intelligence finds a human culture worthy of collaboration rather than conquest-and what happens when a woman has to defend that collaboration with resource consents and lawyers instead of visions and prophecy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of The Bone People, Whale Rider, and anyone who believes the oldest technologies are the ones we carry in our names.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKo Taupō te roto. The whakapapa holds. The fire burns.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nathan Eidem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248386956\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 44\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.16lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.09d","brand":"Nathan Eidem","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48997477155071,"sku":"9798248386956","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-loop-nathan-eidem-9798248386956","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}