Six writers compete for a million-dollar prize. One of them is an AI.

YELLOWFACE 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 joins 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. Readers who enjoyed the island-writers-competition setup of The Ending Writes Itself will find that House of Liars presses into darker, more emotionally wrought territory, centering the struggles of modern motherhood against the backdrop of a publishing industry being remade by AI.