"Riveting, tender, and terrifyingly real."
--Mia Fontaine, New York Times bestselling author
--Mia Fontaine, New York Times bestselling author
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House of LiarsYellowface meets Her in this literary psychological thriller of motherhood, desire, and machines that might know us better than we know ourselves.
When struggling mother and failed novelist Anna Olin is invited to an exclusive residency on a remote island, it feels like an opportunity for artistic redemption. Alongside five other writers, including an old flame whose spark still smolders, she must finish her novel to compete for a million-dollar publishing contract. The catch? One of the writers is an AI. Isolated and under pressure, Anna’s grasp on reality loosens as alliances form fast, seduction beckons, and secrets press closer to the surface, including Anna's own. When she starts receiving cryptic notes and the AI develops frightening new behaviors, Anna must decide what--and who--she's willing to risk if she is to fulfill the darkest fantasies she can't speak aloud, even to herself. Written by a former big tech AI ethics insider, House of Liars is an unflinching portrayal of the seductiveness of AI as it infiltrates our most intimate spaces, centering the struggles of modern motherhood against the backdrop of a publishing industry being remade by AI. Hosting a book club? Check out the discussion guide for prompts and questions. |
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Kobo
Apple Books
Amazon
Google Play
*Read for free:* Request a copy at your local library so others can enjoy it too!
Signed copies are available at Page & Blackmore Books in Whakatū Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand.
House of Liars is distributed to NZ booksellers and libraries through Nationwide.
For direct sales and discounts on orders of 3+ copies, please contact me.
Praise for House of Liars
"Unputdownable and unforgettable... At the heart of this issue-driven novel is also a tender love story, and a tale that is intensely human, with characters grappling with desire, ambitions and longings, alongside frailty and insecurities. House of Liars is surprising and wonderful!"
--NZ Booklovers
“I devoured this novel--its exquisitely imperfect characters, its propulsive mystery, its urgent questions about human desire in the age of artificial everything. House of Liars captures both the perilous moment our world is facing with AI and the dark tensions of modern motherhood: the fantasies, the hunger, and the way women are torn between the lives we choose and the lives we crave. Riveting, tender, and terrifyingly real, this book will keep you up all night reading and then haunt you long after the last page.”
--Mia Fontaine, New York Times bestselling author of Come Back
“Cancel your plans, power off your phone, don’t answer the door: you will be riveted from the first page to the last by Jenny Williams’ smart thriller. Within a page-turning plot, House of Liars probes the dark arts of AI, pulls back the curtain on the publishing industry, and shows a woman struggling to balance her ambitions and desires with the demands of new motherhood. This novel is a rare find—compulsively readable, gorgeously written, and completely original.”
-- Julie Christine Johnson, author of In Another Life and The Crows of Beara
--NZ Booklovers
“I devoured this novel--its exquisitely imperfect characters, its propulsive mystery, its urgent questions about human desire in the age of artificial everything. House of Liars captures both the perilous moment our world is facing with AI and the dark tensions of modern motherhood: the fantasies, the hunger, and the way women are torn between the lives we choose and the lives we crave. Riveting, tender, and terrifyingly real, this book will keep you up all night reading and then haunt you long after the last page.”
--Mia Fontaine, New York Times bestselling author of Come Back
“Cancel your plans, power off your phone, don’t answer the door: you will be riveted from the first page to the last by Jenny Williams’ smart thriller. Within a page-turning plot, House of Liars probes the dark arts of AI, pulls back the curtain on the publishing industry, and shows a woman struggling to balance her ambitions and desires with the demands of new motherhood. This novel is a rare find—compulsively readable, gorgeously written, and completely original.”
-- Julie Christine Johnson, author of In Another Life and The Crows of Beara
Coverage & reviews
- KVNF ran a feature Q&A with me discussing the costs of AI to writers
- I chatted with Susie Ferguson on RNZ--she had a book stolen as training data too!
- NZ Booklovers calls House of Liars "Unputdownable and unforgettable"--!!
- Might have gotten a bit philosophical on A Little Bit Booked, I blame the exceptionally astute questions by host Claire Williamson (also on Spotify and iHeart Radio)
- I raved about why content designers make excellent fictional protagonists with Patrick Stafford on Writers of Silicon Valley
- The novel gets a shout-out in California Magazine's summer 2026 reading list
- "House of Liars reads as exactly of this moment"--Zoe Zolbrod's thoughtful review on Substack
