On the bus ride home from work right before Christmas, Laurie is contemplating her life.  She's temping at a hotel but still waiting for her dream job to appear.  She lives with her best friend Sarah who has already started her career and Laurie feels like she is just waiting for life to start.  Suddenly, she makes eye contact with a stranger waiting at the bus stop.  Before either one of them can move, the bus pulls away.  Laurie spends the next year looking for her bus stop man, but when she finally finds him, he's being introduced to her as Sarah's new boyfriend.  One Day in December covers 10 years of friendship and heartache as Laurie and Jack try to overcome how they feel about each other.

One Day in December is the second Josie Silver novel I've read and it's easily my favorite.  While it is a pretty long book, my copy was 485 pages because it's a mass market, One Day in December flies.  Since it covers important days over the course of 10 years, most of the chapters are only a few pages long.  I loved watching how Laurie and Jack's relationship changes in response to different challenges over the years.