This one was cute! I love friends to lovers but it has to have that balance of mutual pining without so many miscommunication issues where they're just keeping themselves in agony, and this one towed the line well. There were a few moments where I wanted to yell "both of you, get it together!" but I was never annoyed or fed up by it, and it never felt like it was dragging, so it hit the sweet spot. This is book one and I'm glad I went back to read it after I read book two first. In this one, Faye and Bash meet during university in London and she's immediately enamoured by him but he has a girlfriend so they stay friends.  Then we skip to the present, eleven years later still in London, when she runs her own bakery and is getting ready to expand to a second in Manchester, but she hasn't told all of her friends yet, Bash included. He's working with his business partner Bennett at their interior design firm and they have an offer to work in America and he hasn't told anyone, mostly because he's pretty sure he wants to turn it down because he can't imagine living away from Faye, even though they are still just best friends. She's going to be alone for Christmas so he brings her along to his family celebration, they have to share a bed at one point, they both flirt more openly at times while assuming the other is just joking, etc. I won't spoil it with details, but just know that my favorite microtrope of friends to lovers is when one their true feelings come out during a frustrating moment because they just can't hold it in anymore. I also thought Bash's anxiety around food, appearance, social situations, etc. and talks of his therapy and working on it were all well done. Now that I've got a little more background on the friends, I'm looking forward to what I am guessing will be two more stories based on a couple I think will end up together and one on their own who clearly has a lot going on behind the scenes.