Mechanized warfare
Ride alongside the Angels, an elite squad deploying advance exoskeletons and powered blades to battle the risen.
Book One | Hope rises between ruin and revelation
Enter a post-apocalyptic fantasy where alien metal raises the dead, cities burn, humanity falters, and a love story of faith and sacrifice lights the darkness.
Judgment
Judgment introduces the world after Seed, the alien metal intelligence that consumes life, possesses corpses, and turns the apocalypse into something far worse than a zombie outbreak. The risen are not shamblers. They are invaded bodies driven by a singular, furious consciousness.
Sal Hardt is a scarred young soldier shaped by loss, trained in mechanized warfare, and haunted by the cost of survival. He chases Jess across the wastes, the luminous center of the trilogy: brilliant, dangerous, compassionate, and mysteriously powerful in the presence of the dead.
Ride alongside the Angels, an elite squad deploying advance exoskeletons and powered blades to battle the risen.
Seed does not simply kill. It invades, rewires, and repurposes both living bodies and machine systems into a single expanding threat.
Sal and Jess turn longing, sacrifice, and devotion into the fire at the heart of the war.
Judgment frames the apocalypse as both battlefield and metaphor, blending philosophical struggle with questions of belief, will, and redemption.
Review Highlights
"The energy and magic in this story is amazing. It will bring many emotions to the surface."
"A gripping read."
"There's a beauty to the brutality, a dance in the destruction."
"Author Joshua David has crafted a truly epic tale..."
Accolades
Global Book Awards Gold Medal - Religious & Spiritual Fantasy
IndieReader IR Approved - Inspirational / Spiritual Fiction
Illumination Book Awards Enduring Light Medalist - Christian Fiction
Readers' Favorite Book Award Winner - Christian Fantasy / Science Fiction
The Wishing Shelf Book Awards Finalist and Author Elite Awards Top 10 Finalist
Amazon #1 Bestseller - Religious Biblical Fiction
Trailer
Available in ebook, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook, the series gives readers multiple ways to step into the world of Seed.
Sample Read
"1,117 days passed between James's order forbidding the Angels from leaving the base to the day Thad died alone in Seed's evil clutches."
"In that time, I created Nellis' first gang, recklessly risked the lives of every known survivor on Earth, and developed an addiction to nearly everything I could get my hands on."
"No one yet knew the details of his demise, but Thad died so soon after leaving the base that Alice had apparently seen part of his final struggle."
Continue Reading Chapter 16The Trilogy
Book One
Judgment falls from the heavens. Sal and Jess collide with the horror of Seed.
You Are Here
Book Two
Otherworldly spirit and alien strength fuel a mission to far corners of an evolving world.
Enter Charged
Book Three
Reality bends under the gaze of looming fate. The end of days awaits.
Enter DestinyScreenplay
Step deeper into the cinematic side of Judgment with a 20-page preview from the finished screenplay: mechanized Angels fight the undead with blazing swords, Nellis under siege, Jess's miracles, and Sal's exploits are brought to life with Mary's retelling of how Seed fell from the heavens.