Bliss is about a girl named Bliss Inthemorningdew, who is growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s, when segregation is the biggest problem in the county. Bliss begins to attend a school in Alabama. One day, Bliss hears a voice in her head that is not hers. Sandy also hears this voice, although Bliss doesnt know it. One day, Bliss doesnt have anyone to sit with at lunch, so she sits with Sandy. Soon she and Sandy become friends. Sarah Lynn Lancaster is the schools most popular and most beautiful student. Sarah Lynn is secretly dating the only African American in the school.

Bliss Inthemorningdew experiences what it feels like to be a fish out of water when she leaves the hippie commune and is required to stay with her proud grandmother. Before she knows it, she is enrolled at the elite private school of the area and is trying to survive high school, literally. Besides catching up with the trends, she has to infiltrate the school cliques. Along with becoming friends with a group of girls and liking a boy, Bliss befriends Sandy, a troubled girl, whose ambition puts Bliss and everyone she knows in danger.