PLAYED - Cecilia Carnevale

PLAYED is a novel of love, sex and espionage, told in the voice of Cecilia/Melita, a woman torn between desire, guilt and survival.

Between Chiclana, Tangier, Gibraltar, Marseille, Milan, Lisbon and other European cities, two people enter a game that begins as intimacy and quickly turns into surveillance, manipulation and danger. False identities, encrypted messages, technology, memory, the body and reputation become pieces in an operation where nothing is entirely private.

More than a story of pursuit, PLAYED explores how love can be used as a weapon, how truth can be manufactured, and how a woman tries to recover her own version of events.

A tense literary novel about desire, control, identity and the consequences of playing when one no longer knows who wrote the rules.