Guilt's Reckoning

In the rust-belt city of Veridian, prosecutor August Hale secured a death sentence against Emmett Cross for a brutal double murder. Ten years later, as Cross awaits execution, the true killer surfaces—and Hale, shattered by his role in a state-sanctioned lie, begins a quiet, obsessive campaign to dismantle the very machinery of justice he once served, discovering that the noose of remorse tightens far more inexorably than any prison chain.