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She built the carnival from corpses. He came to make her feel again.
In a forgotten corner of the world, the Carnival of the Damned opens only for the broken.

Madame Noir dances on knives and commands the stage with blood on her hands and ice in her chest. She feels nothing by choice. Once a prima ballerina, now a blade-wielding ringmaster, Visha carved her circus from the bones of betrayal, trading her heart for vengeance.
Enter The Escapist, who is a haunted illusionist with a death wish and a past soaked in sleight-of-hand sins. Corvan doesn’t want to be saved. But the moment he steps into her ring of rot and roses, he sees her, truly sees her and Visha hates that she starts to feel again.
Their love is not gentle.
It’s blood-soaked sheets and whispered apologies.
It’s survival disguised as seduction.
But someone must pay for the magic. And in the Carnival of the Damned, every act ends in death.

File Name:the-opening-act-is-death-by-visha-graves.epub

Original Title:The Opening Act is Death

Creator:Visha Graves

Language:en

Identifier:MOBI-ASIN:B0FFJPS6M4

Publisher:VISHA GRAVES

Date:2025-10-02T00:00:00+00:00

File Size:2.874 MB

Acknowledgments

I. WARNINGS:

1. Warning before reading:

II. WELCOME TO THE OPENING ACT IS DEATH

2. ACT I: The Cage Forms

3. Prologue – Madame Noire - Visha

4. Visha — The Curtain Never Falls

5. Corvan — Mirrors Lie Best

6. Visha — Blood and Bone

7. Corvan — The Escapist Doesn’t Escape

8. Visha — Rotting Roses and Bone Dust

9. Corvan — The Petal’s Kiss

10. Visha - The Girl Beneath the Floorboards

11. Corvan — The Note Left Behind

12. Visha - The Stage Where I Died

13. Corvan - Smoke Knows My Name

14. ACT II: The Unraveling of Ghosts

15. Visha - Velvet Doesn’t Forget

16. Corvan - The Show That Should’ve Killed Me

17. Visha - When Blood Blooms

18. Corvan - We’re Just Ghosts in Reverse

19. Carnival Interlude I — The God That Demands Applause

20. Visha - This Dance is a Confession

21. Corvan - Hall of the Unspoken

22. Visha - The Carnival Eats Its Young

23. Corvan - Mirrors Break Me Backwards

24. Carnival Interlude II — The Feast of Shadows

25. Visha - Where Her Knife Hesitates

26. Corvan - Not All Illusions End

27. ACT III: The Final Illusion or is it?

28. Carnival Interlude III — When the Gods Are Disobeyed

29. Visha - The Blood Letter

30. Corvan - She Doesn’t Need to Ask

31. Carnival Interlude IV — The Velvet Throne Bleeds

32. Visha -The Queen of Knives

33. Corvan - Every Magic Trick is a Lie

34. Visha - We Were Never Meant to Survive This

35. Corvan - You Look Like Her

36. Carnival Journal – Corvan

37. Visha - No Applause This Time

38. Torn Page — Visha

39. Corvan - The Illusion Collapses

40. Visha - The Curtain Falls Like a Body

41. Corvan - After the Applause

42. Carnival Interlude — The Carnival’s Last Whisper

43. Act IV: Reckoning and Reign

44. Visha - Embers in the Dark

45. Corvan - Illusions Unraveled

46. Corvan Alone — Wrestling the Truth

47. Visha - The Blood-Bound Pact

48. Corvan - The Price of Escape

49. Visha - Dance of the Damned

50. Corvan - Shattered Reflections

51. Visha - The Warden’s Mercy

52. Carnival Interlude IV: The Breath Beneath the Velvet

53. Corvan - The Last Illusion

54. After the Last Illusion — A Quiet Conversation With Corvan

55. Visha - Heart of The Carnival

56. Carnival Interlude V: The Crown Bleeds

57. Corvan - The Escapist’s End

III. INFORMATION ON THE CARNIVAL

58. THE CARNIVAL OUTLINE

59. Carnival of the Damned Spots

60. WELCOME TO THE CARNIVAL

61. II. THE RULES OF The Carnival

62. CARNIVAL GAMES

63. CHARACTER INFO— Visha & Corvan

64. CARNIVAL CUSTOMS

Epilogue

Afterword

About the Author

The Opening Act is Death by Visha Graves

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