After the suicide of her beloved father, the biologist Daniella Logan visits her catatonic mother in a mental institution to tell the tragic event and her mother calls her "Josephine". Daniella goes to the cemetery and finds that ...

Obituary-writer-turned-author Abby is used to making up quirky, charming characters for her books, but in Bliss those characters have sprung to life, and Abby is fantasizing about moving right in.

A retired CIA agent is recruited to participate in a prisoner exchange with the Russians.