L.B. Roberts writes speculative and emotionally charged fiction about identity, surveillance, power, and the quiet rebellions that begin inside ordinary people. As the young adult author identity of Ember House Literary's The Second Shelf imprint, L.B. Roberts explores the pressure points between technology and humanity - the places where systems claim to know us, measure us, sort us, and predict who we are before we have had the chance to become ourselves. The Algorithm Knows is a story for readers drawn to mystery, psychological tension, digital unease, and characters fighting to reclaim their own voice in a world that keeps trying to define them.