by Abby Jimenez
Published 2026
Larissa made a split-second decision after a concert about who to ride home with, never realizing she had just missed the man she was supposed to be with. Months later, when her mother needs a ride to early-morning surgery and Larissa's current boyfriend Mike cannot make it, he sends his best friend Chris in his place. The hours in the hospital waiting room turn into something neither of them was looking for: the easy, recognizing kind of conversation that suddenly makes everything else in your life feel slightly out of focus. Larissa and Chris become close friends, co-parenting a rescue Yorkie and trading favorite books, and for the first time in a long stretch of side hustles and scraped-together rent, life starts to feel like it might be allowed to be simple. The trouble is that Chris knows what he is feeling and refuses to act on it, because he is loyal to Mike and because Mike is fighting demons of his own that Larissa does not yet know about. Released in March 2026 as part of Abby Jimenez's interconnected contemporary-romance universe, The Night We Met is a slow-burn novel about timing, friendship, and the quiet, grown-up version of pining where two people choose to do the right thing for as long as they can stand it. Witty, emotionally honest, and unafraid of the messier corners of adult relationships, the book has already drawn the kind of devoted readership that has made Jimenez one of the defining voices in modern American romance.
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