Deze serie duikt in een dystopische wereld waar tienerzelfmoord en geweld worden aangepakt door een controversieel programma. Dit programma wist herinneringen en emoties van de deelnemers, waardoor een gevoelloze maatschappij ontstaat. De kern van het verhaal zijn jonge protagonisten die hun weg vinden in deze realiteit, de identiteitsverlies onder ogen zien en vechten om hun herinneringen en liefde te behouden. Het is een meeslepende verkenning van de prijs van controle en het vitale belang van menselijke emotie.
After suicide becomes a worldwide epidemic, the only known cure is The Program, a treatment in which painful memories are erased, a fate worse than death to 17-year-old Sloane who knows that The Program will steal memories of her dead brother and boyfriend.
Working with rebels to bring down The Program, a suicide prevention treatment in which painful memories are erased, Sloane and James consider taking The Treatment to unlock their memories.
Seventeen-year-old Quinn provides closure to grieving families by taking on the short-term role of a deceased loved one, until huge secrets come to the surface about Quinn's own past.
Includes an excerpt from The adjustment, book 5 in the series.
When Tatum's boyfriend, Weston, loses his memories of her in The Program, they decide to undergo The Adjustment, where Tatum's memories of their time together are implanted into Weston's mind, but trouble lies ahead when Weston's emotions do not match the experiences.
How do you go back to a life you can’t remember? Find out in this final installment in the New York Times bestselling Program series from Suzanne Young. Every cure has a cost. Tatum Masterson learned this after years of being monitored by The Program. She witnessed it when her boyfriend, Wes, came back changed, erased. And now, even the newest “cure” has a heavy cost—one she and Wes paid. The Adjustment came into Tatum’s life just when she thought she needed it most, a promise for Wes to get back his forgotten memories. But when the procedure went wrong, a revelation shattered everything Tatum thought she knew. Now, with no one left to trust, Tatum must find out what really happened last summer. And with the help of the boyfriend she lost, Tatum will have to dig into the past and future of The Program and its handlers. And discover the true cost of a cure.