Jaime Seger has no delusions that her best friend, Christopher McKay, the man who has owned her heart and soul for the past twenty years, will ever see her as anything more than his faithful sidekick. In spite of everything, he married some other woman. But when his wife dies all of a sudden, Jaime finds herself helping Christopher raise his young daughter, and on the end of an unlikely proposal. A proposal that promises the whole thing she ever thought she wanted. Or does it?
As the most efficient friends navigate married life, they find themselves torn apart by miscommunication and unrealized expectations. Jaime begins to doubt that Christopher will ever love her the way she loves him. Then near tragedy strikes and Jaime is allowed get admission to into his private thoughts through the journal he is kept since they were in high school together. In its pages she discovers she’s the main character, and it is her that he has at all times loved best. But after the whole thing they have been through, is it too late? Can the most efficient friends remain lovers too?