Peter Watt Books in Order

In the harsh Queensland outback of the 1890s, a brutal crime committed by squatter Donald Macintosh sparks a blood feud with the Irish Duffy clan. As the families clash over land and legacy, a secret Aboriginal heritage binds them together in ways they cannot yet understand.

Michael Duffy returns to Sydney with a score to settle, reigniting the bitter war against the Macintosh family. While the Macintoshes maneuver for political power and wealth, the Duffys fight to survive on the margins, but a new generation is about to turn the tables.

Captain Patrick Duffy is torn between his Irish roots and the scheming grandmother who wants to control him. Meanwhile, on the Queensland frontier, Native Police trooper Peter Duffy faces a heartbreaking choice between his duty and the people of his mother's tribe.

After facing each other as enemies in WWI, Australian captain Jack Kelly and German officer Paul Mann find their lives inextricably linked by the wild frontier of Papua. In a land of gold and treachery, they must navigate a fragile peace as the world changes around them.

Betrayed by his wife, Major Patrick Duffy leaves Sydney for the battlefields of the Boer War, where he encounters a ghost from his past. Back in Australia, a mysterious mentor guides young Alex Duffy to the family's ancestral home, bringing the curse full circle.

As the shadow of a new war looms, the tenuous peace between the Kellys and the Manns is tested in the jungles of Papua. With spies infiltrating the colony and old rivalries resurfacing, the paradise they have built threatens to crumble.

Following a massacre at the Ballarat goldfields in 1854, the MacDonald siblings are scattered across a violent world. From the New Zealand Wars to the American Civil War, Lachlan, John, and Phoebe must fight to survive and find their way back to one another.

In 1918, an Australian soldier in Russia is ordered to smuggle a young woman with imperial connections to safety. Decades later, the discovery of bodies in a small Australian town unravels a deadly secret involving MI6 and the lost Romanov legacy.

At the dawn of the 20th century, Chinese wise man Tung Chi arrives in Queensland on a secret mission. He enlists local merchant John Wong for a dangerous journey back to Peking, where the Boxer Rebellion is about to set the country ablaze.

It is 1916, and the Duffy and Macintosh men are fighting on the front lines of France and the Middle East. But the real danger lies at home, where George Macintosh is passing secrets to the enemy in a bid to consolidate his power.

As the Great War rages on, Matthew and Tom Duffy face the horrors of the trenches and the desert. Meanwhile, an Indigenous man seeks the fiery stars that will help him reclaim his land, and a family traitor continues to weave a web of deceit.

With the Japanese army advancing through the Pacific, the residents of Papua face an invasion that will change their world forever. Old alliances are tested and new heroes rise as the war arrives on Australia's doorstep.

The Great War is ending, but the feud between the Duffys and Macintoshes is far from over. As soldiers return to a changed Australia, George Macintosh fights to deny his nephew's inheritance, while an Aboriginal elder foresees a tide of death sweeping the land.

It is 1936, and while Matthew Duffy faces a new German enemy in Iraq, the family war heats up in Sydney. George Macintosh takes extreme measures to block his nephew David from the boardroom, sending his own son to the outback in a bid to toughen him up.

As WWII reaches the Pacific in 1942, James Duffy defies orders to fly against the Japanese, while Diane Duffy is trapped in the jungles of Malaya. In Sydney, the Macintosh siblings engage in a ruthless power struggle for control of their father's empire.

While Jessica Duffy uncovers treason as a code breaker, her cousin Sarah Macintosh plots to seize the family business by any means necessary. Across the ocean, David Macintosh struggles to survive the brutality of a prisoner-of-war camp.

In the post-war years, Tom Duffy finally purchases his ancestral home, Glen View, but the Macintoshes will not surrender it easily. Sarah Macintosh, now head of the firm, launches a dirty war to destroy him, proving that the deadliest battles are fought at home.

In the final chapter of the saga, Patrick Duffy returns to Southeast Asia to confront the ghosts of his time in Changi. Meanwhile, Michael Macintosh fights in the jungles of Vietnam, unaware that the family curse is building toward its devastating conclusion.

In 1845, blacksmith Ian Steele enters a dangerous pact to assume the identity of British officer Samuel Forbes. While the real Forbes flees to America, Ian must survive the brutal discipline of the Queen's army and the bloody battlefields of the colonial frontier.

Now a seasoned captain, Ian Steele (posing as Forbes) is swept into the chaos of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. He must protect his men and a friend's wife from the violence, all while maintaining the deception that keeps him safe from the gallows.

Ian Steele's double life nears its breaking point as he fights in the New Zealand Wars of 1864. With his ten-year agreement with Samuel Forbes coming to an end, an old enemy threatens to expose the truth and destroy everything Ian has built.

Years after establishing a life in Australia, Ian Steele's son Josiah is determined to follow in his father's military footsteps. Josiah's journey takes him from the goldfields of Queensland to the rugged mountains of Afghanistan, where he fights for an empire he barely knows.

In 1885, the death of General Gordon in Khartoum draws colonial soldiers to the Sudan. Josiah Steele answers the call of duty despite the protests of the woman he loves, plunging the family once again into the heart of an imperial war.

As World War I erupts in 1914, Josiah Steele's sons are swept into the conflict. David and Ben find themselves fighting in German New Guinea and the Middle East, where modern warfare will test their loyalty and change the Steele family forever.