Céline Keating is a writer, editor, and music reviewer. She is an active board member of the environmental organization The Concerned Citizens of Montauk, as well as of the New York chapter of the National Women’s Book Association. Her short fiction has been published in many literary magazines, including Prairie Schooner, North Stone Review, Santa Clara Review, and Emry’s Journal. Her nonfiction has appeared in Acoustic Guitar, minor7th.com, Coastal Living, Guitar World, and Poets & Writers. She lives in New York City and Montauk, Long Island. Play for Me is her second novel.

It happens without warning: At a folk-rock show at her son’s college, Lily becomes transfixed by the guitarist’s unassuming onstage presence and beautiful playing—and with his final note, something within her breaks loose.

 After the concert, Lily returns to her comfortable life—an Upper West Side apartment, a job as a videographer, and a kind if distracted husband—but she can’t stop thinking about the music, or about the duo’s guitarist, JJ. Unable to resist the pull of either one, she rashly offers to make a film about the band in order to gain a place with them on tour. But when Lily dares to step out from behind her camera, she falls deep into JJ’s world—upsetting the tenuous balance between him and his bandmate, and filling a chasm of need she didn’t know she had.

 Captivating and provocative, Play for Me captures the thrill and heartbreak of deciding to leave behind what you love to follow what you desire.