The Waikiora Template

All surviving members of the family are summoned to an idyllic sheep and cattle station in the New Zealand High Country for the winding up of a huge family trust.. The last to arrive is Joe, the son of the dying matriarch, accompanied by his very pregnant fiancée. A freak snowstorm cuts the station off from the outside world, Yet while the guests are “frozen in”, they are subjected to an in-breaking of a series of rationally inexplicable but not quite random factors involving diplomatic intrigue, a revolutionary coup in a faraway Middle East emirate, international financial transactions on a staggering scale and terrorism. In the middle of it all, a little boy is born whose birth bears increasingly eerie parallels to another birth, two thousand years ago…. right down to that postscript to the Christmas Story not usually commemorated in Sunday School Nativity plays.

Sean Pierrot is the pseudonym of a New Zealander currently domiciled in Australia