THE TESTING hit #14 on the New York Times Best Sellers Young Adult list!
It’s graduation day for sixteen-year-old Malencia Vale, and the entire Five Lakes Colony (the former Great Lakes) is celebrating. All Cia can think about—hope for—is whether she’ll be chosen for The Testing, a United Commonwealth program that selects the best and brightest new graduates to become possible leaders of the slowly revitalizing post-war civilization. When Cia is chosen, her father finally tells her about his own nightmarish half-memories of The Testing. Armed with his dire warnings (”Cia, trust no one”), she bravely heads off to Tosu City, far away from friends and family, perhaps forever. Danger, romance—and sheer terror—await.
DMLA congratulates Fiona Maazel on her novel Woke Up Lonely being named one of 
Booklist: Cia is now a First Year student at the University. Her memory of the Testing has been erased, but the messages she left herself in her Communicator nurture her unease and distrust as she enters this new phase of her education. Although hoping to study engineering, she is instead assigned to the Government Studies program, where she distinguishes herself during the Induction period.