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 Is she liberating justice or unleashing judgment? Will she become the arbiter the oppressed need—or the executioner the powerful fear?