Verdict of Steel

When justice has teeth, someone always bleeds. Stripped of rank but not her oath, former military judge Josephine Givens crashes into a frozen wasteland—and discovers something that shouldn't exist. Something massive. Something waiting. The AI calls itself JUDGEMENT. It recognizes her authority. It obeys her verdicts. In a world where the Meridian Corporation controls life through elevator licenses and oxygen quotas, one woman holds the key to a weapon that fires only when the law allows. Someone buried this warship for a reason. Someone powerful enough to rewrite history itself. As corporate death squads close in and the body count rises, Josephine must decide: Is she liberating justice or unleashing judgment? Will she become the arbiter the oppressed need—or the executioner the powerful fear?