Before Tomorrow

By Pintip Dunn

Prequel to the New York Times bestselling novel, Forget Tomorrow.

In a world where all seventeen-year-olds receive a memory from their future selves, Logan Russell's vision is exactly as he expects—and exactly not. He sees himself achieving his greatest wish of becoming a gold-star swimmer, but strangely enough, the vision also shows him locking eyes with a girl from his past, Callie Stone, and experiencing an overwhelming sense of love and belonging.

Logan’s not sure what the memory means, but soon enough, he learns that his old friend Callie is in trouble. She’s received an atypical memory, one where she commits a crime in the future. According to the law, she must be imprisoned, even though she's done nothing wrong. Now, Logan must decide if he'll give up his future as a gold-star swimmer and rescue the literal girl of his dreams. All he'll have to do is defy Fate.

The Forget Tomorrow series is best enjoyed in order.

Reading Order:
Before Tomorrow (Prequel)
Book #1 Forget Tomorrow
Book #2 Remember Yesterday
Book #3 Seize Today

• Language: English
• Publisher: Macmillan Publishers
• Release date: Oct 31, 2016
• ISBN: 9781633757714

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Table of Contents

Dedication

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright © 2016 by Pintip Dunn. All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce, distribute, or transmit in any form or by any means. For information regarding subsidiary rights, please contact the Publisher.

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ISBN 978-1-63375-771-4

Manufactured in the United States of America

First Edition October 2016

For my loving stepmom, Uraiwan

Chapter One

Logan opened his eyes. He’d been lost in a memory from his future—the memory, the one for which he’d been preparing all his life—and it took him a moment to readjust to the present. His surroundings melted into his consciousness like one of those screenshots that slowly came into focus. He saw color first, wide swaths of grays and silvers, which unfurled into the ordinary objects of the memory room. Dark, shiny tiles. A lounge chair with hard cylindrical cushions. Sheets hanging on the walls for privacy.

Privacy. Ha. Like that meant anything when there was a guard next door, peering into his head, seeing everything he saw, hearing everything he heard, feeling everything he felt.

He ripped the helmetlike contraption from his head, fighting the urge to fling it across the room. He’d told his parents he didn’t want this memory. All these visions had done for the people he loved was cause them terrible grief. He’d be just fine without his glimpse of tomorrow, thank you very much.

But his parents had insisted. They said it would arouse too much suspicion if he refused his future memory. It might even clue in ComA, or the Committee of Agencies, to the existence of the Underground, the clandestine group of psychics working to escape the government’s persecution. The last thing Logan wanted was to threaten the group that kept his brother safe.

So he came, and he received the memory from his future self, just like every other teenager who turned seventeen that day.

It was exactly what he expected—and exactly not.

The female guard rushed in just as he was winding up his arm to throw the helmet. So, a gold-star swimmer, huh? she cooed, taking the metal contraption from his hand. He swore to the Fates she hadn’t been cooing a few minutes ago, before he received his memory.

How does it feel knowing you’re going to be someone so…important? Her cool fingers traveled up his arm, inch by crawly inch, like a spider he wanted to flick away.

Yep, she was definitely hitting on him, never mind the years separating them. Who knew a gold-star status could render the age gap irrelevant?

Fine, he said, trying to sound bored, even though his insides churned. It wasn’t the status that made him mad. He’d been working toward this future ever since his parents tossed him into the swimming pool when he was three. Becoming a gold-star swimmer was his every goal realized, his every dream come true.

It was the part…after…that made him feel like a flame was being held to his toes. He didn’t understand what it meant. He didn’t know how it was supposed to make him feel.

Oh, I like the attitude. The guard batted her tattooed eyelids at him. The confidence. The arrogance. Why, you must’ve known this was your destiny. You know what they say. A star in the future is a star today. Was this supposed to be sexy? By Eden City’s standards, she was perfectly attractive. But the change in her attention made the bile rise in his throat.

Just once, he’d like a girl to be interested in him for him. Not for his swimming, not for the body that came along with his hours in the pool. But him. Logan Russell. His thoughts, his wants, his feelings.

The way she used to be interested in him. The girl he hadn’t spoken to in the last five years. The one who had just appeared, unfathomably, in his vision from the future. The one who would one day meet his eyes across the pool hall and make him feel like he belonged.

Calla Ann Stone.

Chapter Two

A couple of hours later, Logan’s left wrist throbbed, although he couldn’t tell if it was from his brand-new hourglass tattoo or the black chip implanted underneath. He raised his wrist in the air, and for a moment, he swore he could feel the chip moving inside, jiggling and jostling.

He couldn’t breathe. He pounded his chest, eyes roving around the men’s relief room, over the toilet stalls and the sinks, looking for a knife, a rod, an edge—anything that could dig into his wrist, rip open his skin, and get this…thing…out of him.

He was being ridiculous. All sorts of objects were implanted inside people all the time, and they certainly didn’t move. Like eye scopes that allowed you to magnify an image at will or iron rods that made your bones stronger. He even had an ID chip embedded in his right wrist, but the operation happened when he was a baby. Most of the time, he was able to pretend it had always been a part of his body.

But this memory chip was new…and freaky. He didn’t care if it was the law. He didn’t care if every seventeen-year-old had one implanted in his or her wrist. He wanted it out.

The first memories from the future arrived twenty years ago, striking those lucky few randomly and without warning. But then, an interesting thing happened. By and large, these people became the most productive members of society. It made sense, really. Instead of wasting their time and resources on things that wouldn’t happen, they were able to focus their energies on the things that would.

A decade later, ComA figured out that the memories weren’t arriving randomly after all. Rather, every person received a memory when he or she turned seventeen. ComA created the Future Memory Agency, or FuMA, to oversee these memories—and legislated that these damn black chips be implanted into every recipient’s

Reviews for Before Tomorrow

[spellboundrdr · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

As expected, I devoured this novella because Logan’s point of view does not disappoint! I might be somewhat biased because I’m so in love with this series but this little glimpse into Logan was awesome. He is even sweeter and more amazing than I originally thought. Anyone who has read and liked the other 2 books must not miss this one… and even if you are new to the series, this might be a good place to start. Before Tomorrow starts a little before the events of Forget Tomorrow (since we get Logan’s side of things) but it quickly catches up to the beginning of the first book. After that, we get to experience a piece of what Callie and Logan went through but from his perspective. It’s great to finally know exactly how Logan was feeling and what he was willing to give up for Callie, even from the very beginning.*I received a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review*

[angeleya-1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Coming into this as a reader who has no knowledge of the world, I found this novella intriguing, but not quite satisfying.

We meet Logan on his 17th birthday, the day when everyone receives their future memory. His is decidedly good, showing him winning a swim race, but the inclusion of Callie in that vision - a friend who he's long let slip, but has never quite left his mind - fills him with doubt. They haven't spoken for years, but seeing her fills him with hope. What does it mean? Callie's birthday is the next day, and when she receives her future memory, it's not so great. Locked away for a crime she's supposed to commit, Logan needs to find a way to help her and atone for a past he's ashamed of.

The story ends on a bit of a cliff-hanger, and while not bad, it just didn't quite hit the spot for me. For fans and readers of the series, I can see how this might be a helpful filler for the world they know, but for me, the information left more questions than answers. The writing is beautiful and the world is certainly intriguing, so the series is worth a shot, but this might not be the best first glimpse for new readers.