After the Moment

Maia Morland is pretty, only not pretty-pretty. She’s smart. She’s brave. She’s also a self-proclaimed train wreck. Leigh Hunter is smart, popular, and extremely polite. He’s also completely and forever in love with Maia Morland.

Their young love starts off like a romance novel—full of hope, strength, and passion. But life is not a romance novel and theirs will never become a true romance. For when Maia needs him the most, Leigh betrays both her trust and her love.

  • Published as young adult, it is is for ages 12+

  • Before I started to write this book (told from the first-person POV of a 17-year-old boy), I interviewed every single man I knew about what being young was like. Turns out they really did think about sex and cars that much. But I also heard about their early struggles to be good. Their attempts to understand what good meant in a culture that does not demand it.

  • “An expertly crafted story about a complicated first love“

    - Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

  • “Weyr offers another rare, sophisticated exploration of love at the end of adolescence . . . Within this story’s raw, honest, psychologically attuned scenes, older teens will find their own aching questions about how best to love, shape a future, and “do the right thing.“

    - Booklist, Starred Review

  • “The book’s strengths lie in the characterizations and the author’s ability to convey the many complex layers of love. With its wise writing and literary word choices, this is a smart book . . .“

    - Kirkus Reviews

 
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