Liar

China Collins' passionate, mid-life marriage to Sam Eagle, an aboriginal lawyer, seems to be all she has ever hoped for. She and Sam share a boisterous sense of humour that turns pillow time into an erotic, rowdy adventure. After they move to a new home on isolated Grimshaw Island, China's happy dream becomes a quagmire of suspicion, manipulative sex, and lies. China innocently uses her journal as a place of refuge and a creative outlet, but she soon realizes that her daily record reveals a disturbing pattern. When she discovers that Sam has been secretly reading her journals, her place of refuge is desecrated and her private thoughts become a weapon that Sam uses to control her. A double betrayal that leaves China devastated.In the process of tracking her husband's lies, the detective wife also exposes the delicate pattern of deceit she herself has invented in order to live with the man she chose to love. China devises a unique way to regain her freedom, but it ends in a deathly resolution that isn't part of the plan.