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Step Into the Spotlight—And the Shadows Behind It
Ismael Alves’ Paradise Circus is a haunting debut that critics are calling “mesmerizing and unflinchingly honest.” A gripping descent into fame, obsession, and the slow unraveling of identity—where every gaze hides a secret, and nothing onstage is ever what it seems.
Paradise Circus
Debut Novel
Rock god Isaac Ackerman stands at the dazzling center of his ‘Paradise Circus,’ a world built on fame and fervent adoration. But when a captivating stranger named Faith enters his orbit, she offers a glimpse into a realm of intense desire and dangerous allure hidden just beneath the surface of his gilded life.
Isaac finds himself drawn towards an obsession that challenges everything he thought he knew, blurring the familiar lines between control and surrender. As he steps further into the shadows, he begins to suspect that those closest to him—especially his quiet wife, Ophelia—may hold the deepest, most unsettling secrets of all.
Paradise Circus is a mesmerizing journey into the intoxicating mystery of hidden passions and the masks we wear. In this high-stakes world of illusion and shifting power, what terrifying truth awaits when the performance finally ends?
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About the Author
Ismael Alves is a Product Owner by day, a History Teacher by heart, and a storyteller in all the spaces between. With a passion for systems-whether digital, historical, or human — his work explores the tension between control and collapse, the past and what we make of it.
Paradise Circus is his debut novel: a dark descent into desire, identity, and the quiet violence we carry. He writes with a curious mind and a bruised kind of tenderness, a ways circling the things we can't name but feel anyway.
When he's not writing, he's reading too many books at once, building worlds, traveling, or losing hours to a playlist he knows by heart.
What Readers Say
Discover why readers and critics alike are captivated by these stories
“Ismael Alves’s "Paradise Circus" is not a story about the glamour of fame; it is a stark, methodical dissection of the soul-crushing weight that celebrity can exert.”
“This is a profoundly compelling novel, not just as a thriller, but as a rich, fictional exploration of the human psyche under the immense pressures of fame and internal turmoil.”
“Wow. Just wow. This book completely wrecked me, and I mean that in the best possible way.”
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