~ Trade Paperback ~ Winner of the Coretta Scott King Book Award for Author - 2025, and the NAIBA Bok of the Year for Young Adult Literature - 2025 ~ New Release - 2024 Twenty-Four Seconds from Now: A Regular Love Story Seventeen-year-old Neon is about to have sex with his girlfriend, Aria, for the first time. In mere seconds to be precise, but he's hiding in the bathroom, nervous, wanting to do everything right . . . A stream of consciousness story of a teen boy about to experience a huge first, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now is a sweet, tender, wholesome novel that discusses how to approach sex for the first time, how to respect your partner, how to be gentle, how to make the moment about love and connection, and displays a refreshingly different side to male sexuality. “Reynolds’s foray into romance is as spectacular as expected. Undoubtedly, Twenty-Four Seconds from Now is a story for everyone” -- Booklist,
