A cream-colored envelope arrives for Mira Cole, a hungry but overlooked copyeditor. She enters the Privilege, a secret program that breaks candidates down through brutal trials, rankings, and eliminations to forge world-shapers. Mira survives the Crucible, Forge, and Ascent, winning lifetime support. She writes a novel, reconciles with her mother, and transforms the Privilege into the Mirror a gentler program nurturing hunger without destruction. Generations carry forward her question: “What do you want?” The hunger never ends, becoming a gift passed from mirror to mirror, beginning to beginning, forever.
