Face Value

By: Miller, Jahmar

She was never ugly. That was the point.

Petra has spent six years working the night shift, babysitting servers - and documenting the largest sorting machine in human history.

By day, Loop is the world's biggest social app. By night, Petra screenshots what it really does: pricing human faces, dealing out attention, deciding who gets to be seen. Her beautiful younger sister June was discovered by the algorithm at thirteen - and consumed by it. Her beautiful older sister Mara is Loop's Vice President of Wellbeing, paid to smile and say safe.

Petra? The "ugly" stepsister. The one the machine priced at zero.

Then she finds the buried research - the studies Loop ran on its own users and hid. Teen depression curves. Self-harm spikes. The sexualization pipelines. All measured. All optimized for. All buried.

She has seventy-two hours to get the files out. The fixers coming for her aren't strangers.

They're family.

Told in Petra's unforgettable voice - funny, furious, and humane - Face Value is a thriller about the algorithm that sorted us all, the sisters it devoured, and the girl it couldn't eat. It will make you delete an app. It might make you call your sister.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HN575K31
• ISBN13: 9798162685555
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"