Icara's Flight [Dystopian Science Fiction, Female Lead]

AUTHOR'S NOTE: I spent eight years writing this story after leaving a cult. I'm posting chapters every day. The story is complete and 100% human-written. Would you give up immortality to learn the truth? Icara Svi is trapped in paradise. She lives in a beautiful city of immortals, but struggles to stomach the brutality of her assigned monastic career. Then she discovers her father’s body in the wreckage of a burning spaceship. It’s impossible—her father died seven years ago. The republic covers up the crash. Icara knows that investigating her father’s second death will put her in the republic’s crosshairs. Defying them means risking her immortality, her memories, and her slot in paradise. Her only ally is Esben, a desert healer who can navigate the forbidden planet beyond the Home. Together, Icara and Esben race to uncover a galactic conspiracy before ruthless agents silence them. Icara's Flight is a space opera with high stakes, moral complexity, and a monk who must choose between paradise and truth.