In her incendiary first novel, up-and-coming author Fiona Zedde has crafted a sizzling and insightful story about a young Jamaican-American career woman who discovers that there's much more to life than work--and much more to love than meets the eye. From the outside, Bliss Sinclair's life seems very glamorous--a high-profile job with a publishing house, a fashionable boyfriend who looks good on her arm, and ultra-chic parties where the come-ons are as hot and thrilling at night as they are empty as an air-kiss greeting the next day. It's a world Bliss wanders through with blinders on, all the while craving more. Suddenly, she finds it in the most unlikely of places. Embarking on a series of carnal adventures with a notorious bad girl as her guide. Bliss opens herself to every new experiences and every taboo. In abandoned warehouses, private fetish clubs, even her own office, Bliss is skating on the thin ice of desire--until her world comes crashing in. Now, broken and wanting, Bliss decides to spend a summer in her birthplace, Jamaica, where she hopes to reconcile with her estranged father and rediscover herself. There, in a land of lush ripeness, of heat, warm breezes, easy smiles, and the family she left behind. Bliss will discover what she didn't know was missing. It's a journey that will awaken every one of her senses and take her to the edge of pleasure and far beyond it, to a love that is as sexy as it gets, as real as can be, and more surprising than she can imagine--a place of total bliss.
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In her incendiary first novel, up-and-coming author Fiona Zedde has crafted a sizzling and insightful story about a young Jamaican-American career woman who discovers that there's much more to life than work--and much more to love than meets the eye. From the outside, Bliss Sinclair's life seems very glamorous--a high-profile job with a publishing house, a fashionable boyfriend who looks good on her arm, and ultra-chic parties where the come-ons are as hot and thrilling at night as they are empty as an air-kiss greeting the next day. It's a world Bliss wanders through with blinders on, all the while craving more. Suddenly, she finds it in the most unlikely of places. Embarking on a series of carnal adventures with a notorious bad girl as her guide. Bliss opens herself to every new experiences and every taboo. In abandoned warehouses, private fetish clubs, even her own office, Bliss is skating on the thin ice of desire--until her world comes crashing in. Now, broken and wanting, Bliss decides to spend a summer in her birthplace, Jamaica, where she hopes to reconcile with her estranged father and rediscover herself. There, in a land of lush ripeness, of heat, warm breezes, easy smiles, and the family she left behind. Bliss will discover what she didn't know was missing. It's a journey that will awaken every one of her senses and take her to the edge of pleasure and far beyond it, to a love that is as sexy as it gets, as real as can be, and more surprising than she can imagine--a place of total bliss.