Blood is equal parts auspicious literary debut, page-turner, and erotic novel about four people whose lives are intertwined during one year at Radcliffe College. Norrie is a painter who has accepted a prestigious fellowship at the college; she's excited to give up her job and live the artist's life for a time. She's also in the middle of an intense affair with a married man that consumes both their lives. Norrie also befriends two other fellows, a journalist and a poet. These three intense relationships quickly begin to infringe upon each other, and soon the quartet is hurtling toward some shocking—perhaps tragic—end. Blood is a triumph of suspense writing, a true psychological thriller about the nature of desire and the danger of love.