A Miami Beach action thriller
Behind the gates of Paradise Island, wealth buys silence, private power replaces justice, and every secret waits for the right storm.
Paradise is a private address
On a fictional island within sight of Miami, surgeons, lobbyists, financiers, heirs, and international operators live behind walls built to keep consequence out.
When violence tears through the enclave, one family refuses the police and chooses its own justice. The decision pulls every hidden arrangement into the open and turns a protected community into a field of retaliation.
En una isla ficticia frente a Miami, cirujanos, cabilderos, financieros, herederos y operadores internacionales viven tras muros construidos para mantener lejos las consecuencias.
Cuando la violencia atraviesa el enclave, una familia rechaza a la policía y elige su propia justicia. La decisión expone cada pacto oculto y convierte una comunidad protegida en un campo de represalias.
Four views of the same island
01
The house of appearances
Palatial homes frame lives built on influence, appetite, and carefully managed reputations. Through glass walls, the residents can see everything except the damage already moving toward them.
02
The law beyond the shoreline
Refusing scandal, exposure, and official justice, powerful men move the reckoning offshore. What begins as vengeance becomes the choice that binds every family on the island to what follows.
03
The rooms behind the gates
Affairs, family histories, financial schemes, and private humiliations intersect across the island. No liaison is isolated; every intimacy belongs to a larger contest for control.
The storm remembers every debt
The island’s alliances fracture outward toward California, Switzerland, international finance, corporate espionage, and an expanding circle of enemies. Paradise survives, but not unchanged.
The forces in play
A family’s refusal to trust public institutions creates a punishment no institution could authorize.
Old smuggling routes and concealed bloodlines make the island’s present inseparable from its past.
Marriage, desire, and humiliation become instruments in conflicts that escape every locked room.
Miami’s private scandal opens onto Swiss mysteries, financial exposure, and international intrigue.
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Nelson Hamel & Charles Sibley
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Edición en español
Nelson Hamel & Charles Sibley
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Nelson Hamel & Charles Sibley
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Nelson Hamel & Charles Sibley
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The island is fictional. Its bargains are not.
In paradise, nobody asks what justice costs until the bill arrives.
Choose your editionA work of fiction for mature readers. Contains sexual violence, coercion, and retaliatory violence.