One Day in December

Josie Silver

A London woman named Laurie locks eyes with a stranger through a bus window one December and spends a year hoping to see him again, only to discover he's dating her best friend, Sarah. The novel follows Laurie, Jack, and Sarah through roughly a decade of overlapping relationships, career changes, and near-misses as their feelings and loyalties shift. It's a dual-perspective, slow-building love story that leans more on emotional tension and friendship than on physical heat.