At a glossy gathering on Paradise Island, record exec Eva Glennsoulful, sexy, powerful, and perhaps pregnantis hosting a comeback showcase for singing sensation Sunny Addison, a barefoot diva with a poets heart and the voice of a lion. At the events high-strung peak, however, Eva begins to sink beneath the waves of anxiety washing over heranxiety over a confusing sexual triangle, a career at a crossroads, and choices to be made about her possible pregnancyand decides, in a blink, to flee. She leaves Paradise for the petite, pastoral island of Cat, accompanied by her sometime-lover DArtagnan Addison, an earnestly crazy mystic looking for answers of his own. What begins as an idyllic break quickly turns into an intense sojourn that brings Eva to terms with the crises closing in on her.Bliss is a novel about the real rhythm and blues of life, about pain and loss and why we hold tight, in the end, to the sex and music and love that offer us a fleeting glimpse of bliss, even when the price is steep.From the Trade Paperback edition.