Subject 25: The Deconstruction of a Star

5.2 Million Followers. One Captor. Zero Filters.Elara Vance is the queen of the algorithm. With a single selfie, she can launch trends, destroy careers, and command the attention of millions. Her life is a perfectly curated feed of luxury, beauty, and adoration. But when she is snatched from a VIP event and wakes up in a cold, white cell known only as "The Silo," she discovers that her metrics hold no currency.Enter Dr. Aris Thorne. Cold, clinical, and utterly unimpressed by her fame, Thorne isn't interested in ransom. He is interested in the truth. He believes Elara is a lie-a construct of vanity and pixels-and he has designed a twenty-step protocol to dismantle that lie, piece by piece.From the crushing silence of isolation to the brutal reality of the scalpel, Elara is forced to endure a gauntlet of physical and psychological dismantling. As her beauty is stripped away and her body broken, she must confront the terrifying question at the heart of the experiment: When the followers are gone, the beauty is ruined, and the screen goes dark... who are you really?

Pagina's: 227, Paperback, Independently published