Numbers of people are entering polygamy today. Travel that world through a modern day family who leaves traditional Mormonism and enters polygamy, the father excited, the mother and teenagers deeply troubled. Meet the adult and teenage cliques of the governing "elite" families, the "second-class" families, the "obedient" women who believe they must be subservient in every way, and finally the strong-willed women who use their intrinsic powers to develop a life of freedom and choice within the group. Meet the men and their different uses of religious power over the women whose lives they control—and those they only think they control. In the end will these teenagers and their mother give up the "good life" they have created—and their very freedom? 
 Laura Chapman, who grew up in the Colorado City Polygamist Group as the 25th child of 31 children, has been featured on CBS/48Hours, ABC 20/20, and in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and in London newspapers. Believing education critical to understanding life and with double degrees in Sociology and Human Development, and a minor in Psychology, Mrs. Chapman is deeply concerned with the Colorado City group forcing all their children to withdraw from public schools.
"Llewellyn accomplishes the incredible task of exposing the many diverse dynamics of Utah polygamist groups and their members in A Teenager's Tears. 

The characters of the women, children, men and self- proclaimed apostles are both astounding and precise. The display of male privilege, abuse of power in leadership, and struggles within families, is triumphantly accurate. The "feminists" within the groups, however, are still captured in the basic belief that without a man there is no heavenly glory in the hereafter."

 Rena Mackert, formerly of the Colorado City Polygamist Group, appeared on A & E’s "Inside Polygamy" documentary. Mr. Llewellyn has effectively presented the fears of a young girl entering a lifestyle she does not understand. An excellent representation of what women face in sharing their husband with other women. Hats off to Mr. Llewellyn for courageously presenting the issue of pedophile behavior so rampant in these cults, and the lack of action taken against the perpetrators by polygamist leaders."
 Rowena Erickson, a founding member of Tapestry Against Polygamy and a former polygamist wife, was quoted in a Salt Lake Tribune article, Mar.8, 2000, about his first book Murder of a Prophet, "I kept looking at the women and the girls he writes about and how real they are. He knows the life."
 Greg Burton, who wrote the Tribune article, stated: " Llewellyn is everything he purports to be and more. . . ." 
 With a law enforcement investigator’s trained and objective eye, Llewellyn explores the positives and the negatives of this lifestyle. As a Mormon he came to believe the doctrine of plural marriage, entered polygamy as an adult, lived the life for many years, and then chose to leave because of corruption among the priesthood leadership. As additional research, he interviewed many people: men and women still in polygamy, women who have left, and teenagers who had the option to leave, and did. 

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