THE PROFILE GOD NEVER MADE

Forty-seven followers. That was the number that told Emma Calloway what she was worth.

Sixteen-year-old Emma is invisible - at school, at home in Harlow Creek, and on the screen where her real life is supposed to be waiting. While her mother talks about eggs and homework, Emma studies the girls the cameras love and quietly ranks herself against everyone. She knows all about online predators. She's smart, fluent, careful - she could teach the assembly.

Then a bright, funny girl named Zoe finds her page, and for the first time in her life, Emma feels seen. Zoe passes every test on the safety checklist. Zoe never asks for anything. Zoe gives.

Her mother warns her. Her aunt prays. Her best friend stands at her locker and begs her to listen. Emma files every voice away - until a casting call, a silver van, and a door that locks from the outside teach her what the assemblies never said: predators don't hunt the careless. They hunt the hungry.

In a warehouse ninety minutes from home, among seven teenagers who were each lured the same way, Emma discovers the answer to the question the internet taught her to ask - and meets the only Audience who was never once scrolling past. Because the same hunger lives everywhere: in a girl with forty-seven followers, and in a woman with eleven million, crying on the floor of a closet the lens can't rent.

You were never the profile. The real one was wanted the whole time.