The Complication

by Suzanne Young

  Thank you, everyone. And please . . . stay hopeful.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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  SUZANNE YOUNG is the New York Times bestselling author of the Program series. Originally from Utica, New York, Suzanne moved to Arizona to pursue her dream of not freezing to death. She is a novelist and an English teacher, but not always in that order. Suzanne is the author of The Program, The Treatment, The Remedy, The Epidemic, The Adjustment, The Complication, Hotel for the Lost, All in Pieces, and A Need So Beautiful.

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  ALSO BY SUZANNE YOUNG

  The Program Series

  Book 1: The Program

  Book 2: The Treatment

  Book 3: The Remedy

  Book 4: The Epidemic

  Book 5: The Adjustment

  Hotel for the Lost

  All in Pieces

  Just Like Fate

  (with Cat Patrick)

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  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real people, or real places are used fictitiously. Other names, characters, places, and events are products of the author’s imagination, and any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  First Simon Pulse hardcover edition April 2018

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Young, Suzanne, author.

  Title: The complication / by Suzanne Young.

  Description: First Simon Pulse hardcover edition. | New York : Simon Pulse,

  2018. | Series: The Program ; book 6 | Summary: Seventeen-year-old Tatum

  Masterson has no memory of being in The Program, but when she starts

  experiencing crashbacks she knows something terrible happened last summer,

  and with the help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum digs into the past and

  future of The Program and its handlers and discovers the true cost of a cure.

  Identifiers: LCCN 2017047735 (print) | LCCN 2018007741 (eBook) |

  ISBN 9781481471350 (hc) | ISBN 9781481471374 (eBook)

  Subjects: | CYAC: Brainwashing—Fiction. | Memory—Fiction. |

  Love—Fiction. | Science fiction.

  Classification: LCC PZ7.Y887 (eBook) | LCC PZ7.Y887 Co 2018 (print) |

  DDC [Fic]—dc23

  LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017047735