MIRAGE | H.S

Ciara Vaux is a young French pickpocket that refuses to fall for the charm of a certain Brit's smile. She lives by the rules of the streets of Paris, where survival always comes first and hope barely stands a chance. Yet she still clings to the ghosts of dreams that once carried her to the next sunrise.

Harry Styles is one of the most celebrated acrobats of the Reverie Masquerade Circus, blessed with unmatched talent in the air and a dangerously magnetic charisma that has all of Europe under his spell. He's at the peak of his career: idolized, untouchable, suffocatingly perfect, everything he's ever wanted. And that means he has to smile.

Always.

On one of those nights, Harry's idyllic world slips into Ciara's decaying reality like an unexpected eclipse, shedding light on everything she once buried in the dark just to survive.

And for a moment, he makes her believe again. In something soft, something fleeting. A world where she could rise from the ashes, where there are no limits, no rules, only the fragile promise of dreaming again.

And it's there, too, where the lines between love and horror begin to blur, dissolving into a dizzying dance of lingering caresses and lies she can no longer escape.

A mirage that refuses to let her go.

Welcome to the circus.

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Start date: 25/11/25

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