Be careful what you wish for—because someone else already has. In a world where every person is granted three irreversible wishes on their eighteenth birthday, humanity has all but destroyed itself. Cities warp. Skies bleed. Kingdoms rise overnight and crumble by morning. The rules are ironclad: no undoing, no time travel, no world peace—and every wish comes at a price. Seventeen-year-old Calder Reyes has spent his life studying the wreckage. He's seen what selfishness does when made law. And as his birthday approaches, Calder doesn't want power, wealth, or immortality. He wants to do the impossible: Stop the collapse of humanity by beating the system at its own game. But the wish system isn't broken. It was built to break us. And Calder's only weapons are his mind, his resolve, and three wishes he cannot waste. To save the world, he'll have to become something the world has never seen. A filter. A sacrifice. A consequence. Wishes don't come free. And Calder is about to find out what they really cost.