A disturbing glimpse into a reality based on illusion… China Collins’ passionate mid-life marriage to Sam Eagle, an aboriginal lawyer, seems to be all she’d ever hoped for. As the artist settles into the life she and her husband are making together in their Maritime Home, she slowly realizes that Sam isn’t quite what he’d seemed. The pieces of the puzzle swirl and swift, but China cannot evade the truth forever - the truth that her beloved husband is a pathological Liar. In the process of tracking her husband’s lies, the artist becomes a detective. China reluctantly leads herself to expose the delicate patte of deceit she herself has invented in order to live with the man she chose to love. Eventually she devises a unique way to regain her freedom, but it all ends in a resolution that she hadn’t foreseen. Fragments of China’s Poetry and her jou al entries provide a fascinating glimpse into her perceptions of a situation that has bound itself deeply into her life, and that refuses to be unbound without a struggle. Bo in Kingston, Jamaica, Joanna Gosse grew up in St. John’s, Newfoundland where she first honed her talents as a dancer/ singer / actress. Continuing her acting career in Montreal and Toronto, she has written songs, poems, television comedies and screenplays, preformed on stage, radio and television , and written and produced a one-woman play. She has two children and three grand children. Liar is her first published novel.