After The Forgotten Coast was published a LOT of other people who are also trying to get their heads around their settler-colonial family histories got in touch with me. Many of them, too, have only recently realised that their roots in this place lie in damage and violence done to Māori. I learned a great deal from these people - about the things we, as Pākehā, choose to remember (or forget); about how we make sense of our family histories; and about what we do when we figure out that the pioneer stories many of us grew up with sometimes mask another, darker side to our pasts that we do not much speak of. This book - published by Massey University Press in 2024 - is about those people and their stories.