Novel
Point of View
First Person
Publication Date
Oct. 1, 2025
Archive Date
Sept. 28, 2025

Escaping Ishtar

ARC Details

Seventeen-year-old Ayris has never set foot beyond the domes of Ishtar, a city where life isn’t measured in years—it’s measured in points.

Everyone is born with one hundred, losing one each birthday. Break a law, and you’ll lose more. Lose them all, and you’re dead.

Ayris a Gray lives in Zone Two, just a step above the lowest rank. She dreams of climbing higher to a life with more freedom and to be with her best friend Stellah a Blue in Zone Three.

But then, suddenly, she’s losing points way too fast. The unfairness grows, and whispers of rebellion spread through the domes.

Will she take the risk and join the fight for freedom?
Where will that lead her and the people she cares about?

Short Blurb
Seventeen-year-old Ayris has never set foot beyond the domes of Ishtar.
In this city, life isn’t measured in years — it’s measured in Points.

You’re born with one hundred. You lose one every birthday.
Break one of the City’s laws, and you’ll lose more.

There is no way to earn them back.

Ayris is about to find out what happens when the last point falls,
and what’s been waiting beyond the domes all along.

Trigger Warnings:

light violence, death

Estimated Words:
87,000
Estimated Pages:
350
ISBN / ASIN:
B0FR3HQL5T
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