CASSIE HOUR · A LITERARY MYSTERY BY ALP ŞAHİN

Some invitations cost more than money

Name: Cassie Hour
Author: Alp Şahin

Marbella, 1985. A private villa filled with beauty, money and people accustomed to getting what they want. George controls cameras and recordings. Cassie arrives late and resists his control.

Thirty-five years later, a recording draws Adrian toward Cassie’s past. Cassie Hour moves between desire and surveillance, between what people remember and what a recording can preserve.

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Decades later, sound restorer Adrian follows a recovered song toward Villa Liminal and Cassie’s past.

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Inside Villa Liminal

Cassie arrives. George controls the cameras and the recordings. Isabelle is there. What survives will depend on more than what happened.

2020

A recording returns

Adrian follows a damaged recording. Isabelle recognizes words from Villa Liminal. Restoration opens a question of ownership as well as memory.

Meet Cassie, Isabelle, George and Adrian

Cassie

The unexpected arrival who makes the controlled story stop obeying

Isabelle

A witness carrying a memory with more than one possible meaning

George

The villa's host, with the cameras and recordings under his control

Adrian

A sound restorer following a damaged recording into someone else's past

Meet the wider named cast

Rafael “Rafa” Moura
Paola Fiori
Helena Voss
Lurdes
Warren Pike
Damián
Samir Nassari
Nico Vane
Tomás de la Serna
Bianca Bellandi
Núria
Félix
Elías
João Moura
Marco Fiori
Vera
Hadley
Fernanda Cruz

The story also leaves some people and identities unnamed.

Editorial review · Reedsy Discovery

“Glimmers of The Great Gatsby”“Believable, well-rounded characters, tantalizing dialogues, and atmospheric scenes.”McKenzie Lynn Tozan · Reedsy Discovery
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At the centre of Cassie Hour is Villa Liminal, a mysterious Marbella villa shaped by beauty, money and control.